Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 13:15:30 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: gerti-freebsdq@bitart.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org/search/search.html, sort by date? Message-ID: <20000422131529.A2901@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000422065703.28764.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:57:03AM -0500 References: <20000422065703.28764.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
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Gerd Knops said on Apr 22, 2000 at 01:57:03: > Hi, > > The sort by date feature on the www.freebsd.org/search/search.html > page is gone since a while. Any specific reason? It still seems to > work fine when I modify the URL by hand, and I rather miss it. I don't know whether this is the reason, but there was a problem with sort-by-date which I'd pointed out on the -doc list a few months ago. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=151495+0+archive/1999/freebsd-doc/19991114.freebsd-doc Basically, you couldn't get the 25 most recent matches with sort-by-date: if you picked "limit results to 25" and "sort by date", it would pick the 25 highest-scoring matches overall and sort those by date. So you may miss out recent messages and get higher-scoring but older messages. I'd suggested either changing the behaviour or changing the wording on the page to make it clear what it actually does. If you want to sort by date, try geocrawler (http://www.geocrawler.com) Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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