total number of documents

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Hello,
The Webinator is up and doing fine. The total number of documents
doesn't appear anywhere. I have it listed as a webinator function and
was wondering how I activate it?
Thanks,
Judy Dew

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I assume you mean a count of all documents in the database.
gw -s "select count(Url) from html"

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I believe she is asking about total matches of a search and not
the total documents withing the database.

If I'm correct then here's my answer:

The only time we produce the number of matching documents
after a search is when you are using an absolute proximity like
"paragraph" instead of relevance ranking.

This is because there is not a truly definitive number that can be
produced when performing a rank. (Although some people might argue
this point.) The ranking method we use in the Webinator just orders
all the documents in the database by how relevant they are to the query.


Thanks,

Bart Richards
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