19 May
2005
19 May
'05
12:46 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:12 -0700, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
plus it can't do case-sensitive searches, or index common words. It's
reasonably good for indexing websites, given the huge volume of data out
there, but for narrow subject-specific searches it's probably a little
too optimised at the expense of functionality.
(funnily enough I get fed up recently with never being able to find half
my data on local disk, so I'm playing around with "local" search and
indexing algorithms at the moment)
cheers
Jules
From:
"Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
It works surprisingly well but it still misses a lot. In any case, these are all academic in
comparison to the problems
of indexing. I don't even have the beginings of how to deal
with that problem.
Google :)