Ideas for the next version

Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Jan 10, 1997 10:35 am

Just some random thoughts and wishes:

In addition to support select and delete SQL statements, how about
supporting count?

I'd like to be able to search the title or url only. Altavista does this
by prefixing with title: or url: For example title:webinator or
url:thunderstone

Something else I'd like, but might be tough to implement (although it might
make a good discriminator for you) would be a way to limit search results
to the highest level of an url tree in which hits are found. Rather than
returning every page that has a hit, it would look at the pages with hits
and return only the "root," or highest level page with a hit. This would
result in less noise but still enable the user to go to the right section
of a site.

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Carl Dickson cdickson@govsolutions.com
Government Solutions Phone: 703-847-3601
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Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Jan 10, 1997 11:45 am

Its in there:
gw -sc "select count(Url) from html where Title like 'Thunderstone'"

( Select is powerful, see the manual )

As and end user or as an administrator? If its the latter see above.
We're considering a "power search" interface addition for the free
Webinator, if you have Texis or a T1000 license you can already do
this.

This is a matter of site preference. if you walk your site with
gw -b -d4 (breadth first, depth 4) and then use a default proximity
of "page" , the answers will be returned in depth order, and no
documents deeper than 4 levels will be in the index.

The default ordering "rank" produces the best answers first.

Thanks,

Thunderstone

Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Jan 10, 1997 12:48 pm

At 11:45 AM 1/10/97 EST, you wrote:

Didn't see it in the hardcopy manual, and it's easy to overlook things in
the online manual.

As an end user.

I've got the commercial webinator. But a "power search" option sounds great.

That's a good work around, but what I had in mind was something easy for
the end users. Also, I'd like to search it as a search option and not a
web-walk/index option. That way, the same database can be search multiple
ways.

______________________________________________________________
Carl Dickson cdickson@govsolutions.com
Government Solutions Phone: 703-847-3601
http://www.govsolutions.com Fax: 703-760-7899
8000 Towers Crescent Dr., Suite 1350, Vienna, VA 22182