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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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Re: New search engine
W Hibdon  Account Info
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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-

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 15:09 GMT


Re: Re: New search engine
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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Hey, I wrote that one...

Yes, this one is much improved.

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 15:43 GMT


Re: Re: Re: New search engine
W Hibdon  Account Info
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That was an error. I ment "The old search engine was the best darn search engine in the whole darn world. I wish it were back." Yeah, that is exactly what i wanted to say.

-W-

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 22:01 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Joey Gannon  Account Info
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Good recovery. Now mention how much you love ZShell, and everything will be fine. ;-)

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 23:24 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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Better yet, go give it a 10 for a rating....^ llink ^ :-)

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 23:40 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Heh, I did :)

Reply to this comment    22 March 2004, 22:38 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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Me too :-) It definately deserves it. Now someone justs neds to review it! You can get som massive sucking up points on that one :-)

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 02:48 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Jeremiah Walgren  Account Info
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ZShell is awesome. I merely lack the 85... :-(

Reply to this comment    22 March 2004, 04:36 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
W Hibdon  Account Info
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Man, Magnus, love that ZShell. You know, when I had that 85 for about a week, I would have died with out ZShell.

-W-

Reply to this comment    22 March 2004, 23:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
W Hibdon  Account Info
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Though, you did spell organize wrong.

-W-

Reply to this comment    22 March 2004, 23:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
blauggh Account Info

Nah, 'organize' is the (North) American way of spelling it. The (official) Queen's English used almost everywhere else spells it 'organise.'

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 14:03 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
W Hibdon  Account Info
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I had no idea....

-W-

Reply to this comment    25 March 2004, 00:41 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Drantin  Account Info

tsk, tsk. Should've used Usgard ;)

Reply to this comment    23 March 2004, 22:34 GMT

Re: New search engine
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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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.

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 17:31 GMT

Re: Re: New search engine
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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I was thinking about that, too. It might motivate people to rate more files (on the good side), but I don't know if people would make good ratings or not. I guess we could try it out and see if it works or not. *shrug* I think it could work.

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 17:56 GMT

Re: Re: New search engine
cloudofstrife  Account Info

A ranking for the person who makes the most ratings seems a little, I don't know, pointless, because how a person rates should be much more important than how many they rate.

I want to know whether there is a way to see the rating on a file. I've looked a few times and not seen anything on the page. Personally, I'd like to know how people like my programs...

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 18:50 GMT


Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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There isn't. But there will be.

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 18:51 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
jrock7286  Account Info
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Well, could you, I don't know, show us where the ratings are stored? Help us hack maybe? ;)

Reply to this comment    23 March 2004, 16:19 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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chmod 777

I think that would help too :)

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 22:38 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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Well, they're in the tables file_ranking and file_rating_ballot.

Reply to this comment    25 March 2004, 19:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
jrock7286  Account Info
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Is there a website or something you could give us that has them posted? Please?! lol...don't bother going out of your way to do it. I was just curious...

Reply to this comment    25 March 2004, 21:07 GMT


Re: Re: New search engine
Ben Cherry  Account Info
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yes, i do think it will lead to improper rating. It is fairly easy, especially with a tabbed browser, to run through an entire directory and rate everything randomly to get on the list. And besides, it wont mean much (imo) to have clicked more bubbles on file info pages than anyone else. The reviewer toplist is good, though, because for a review to be approved, it needs to be good and thoughtful, so those who have had many reviews approved in general have taken the time to give thought to a game and express their feelings about it in accessible fashion.

Reply to this comment    21 March 2004, 19:38 GMT

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