New search engine
Posted by Magnus on 21 March 2004, 12:28 GMT
Our new search engine, announced back when we migrated to the new server, is now finally up. This means you are no longer sent over to Google for all web searches on our site. It also means that you can once again specify which areas of the site you want to search (using Custom search).
For the technically interested, this search engine is based on the tsearch2 package from postgresql, which provides full text indexing with relevance ranking. Since it's included in the database, it integrates very efficiently with the other database parts of our site.
Now that you're done reading this, go rate some files! (1314 votes on 896 programs so far - get to work!)
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W Hibdon
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This is great. However, the last search engine was nothing to write home about. Is this one improved? Will I actually get what I searched for?
-W-
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21 March 2004, 15:09 GMT
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Morgan Davies
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Yeah I have to admit I have not rated many files. I asit down for a half hour tonight and just go rate a whole bunch of the programs I have used in the past.
I'm just curious, what does everyone think about a toplist for number of files a user has rated? Do you think it would lead to people rating inproperly? Just a random thought I had.
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21 March 2004, 17:31 GMT
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