Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Simple Search problems

[Olivier D. <dr...@sh...>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:07:27PM -0500, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:
> I was fixing a typo in the simple search config description when I decided 
> to give it a try.  It didn't work.  Detaint_dirname killed the script 
> (there were no directory names which should have killed it), and I couldn't 
> get the recursion to work with ('*.html, */*.html, */*/*.html, 
> */*/*/*.html).  Did we decide on another method?    Perhaps we should have 
> recursion on by default if $Emulate_Matts_Code is set to 0, and keep the 
> old method if it is set to 1.

I wasn't there when the scripts were implemented but crashers are
definetly issues that need to be addressed. ('*.html, */*.html, */*/*.html, 
*/*/*/*.html) ... is that just a typo or are you missing a ' before the
closing bracket?

> Also, I'd like to implement sorted results if $Emulate_Matts_Code is set to 
> 0.

If you can do better than google :o) Just kidding. Sorted results would
be AWESOME! What would you base the sorting on? I've tried to implement
a sort myself for search results and it's pretty hard to get it right.
There is more to take into account than just the frequency of keywords
in a document (although that's a pretty good start -- for 1 word search
it's pretty much the only thing to do, for multiple words you have two
keywords or more to count frequency -> which will give better results?
10-1 or 4-4? Also as the google theory says, how many words in between
those two words -> closer = better. *insert your favorite sorting method
here*, etc, etc ... can get pretty complicated if you really want it)

-Oli

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