Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:55:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Search engine feature requests Message-ID: <3D1B6DCA.1C78D4B1@centtech.com> References: <3D1B4EFF.6CE145A9@centtech.com> <XFMail.20020627135913.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20020627214120.A36410@lpt.ens.fr>
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Yep.. I agree.. Anyone else have ideas? Eric Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > John Baldwin said on Jun 27, 2002 at 13:59:13: > > > > - Allow to sort by date and inverse date, as well as for more than one > > page of results if possible. > > On that topic -- back when the search engine actually (mostly) worked, > the "sort by date" option was misleading. If you took "sort by date" > and "25 results", it would sort the 25 highest-scoring results of all > time and sort those by date. So the only way to get near-useful > results was to ask for 250 or more matches sorted by date. It would > be nice if you could get the 25 (or n) most recent results containing > the desired keywords, regardless of what the engine judges to be > relevant. > > Thanks > - Rahul -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology He who laughs last didn't get the joke. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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