discuss: Full-Text Search Engine for HOWTOs
Subject:
Re: Full-Text Search Engine for HOWTOs
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
19 Nov 2004 23:00:52 -0000
Message-Id: <20041119230050.GA2391@davespc>
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:52:59PM -0800, saqib ali wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Try this: http://tools.tldp.org/search.php
>
> It is a full-text search engine that search only the HOWTOs (and not
> the whole site), so the results are more relevant to what the reader
> is looking for.
For me it's broken. I use the lynx browser and it can't find a word
unless it's at least 5 letters long. It fails to find pci, isa, lpc,
etc. Also, it doesn't find the phases but instead finds the "or" of the
words.
Well, I tried the Dillo and Mozilla browsers. Still the same problems.
>
> Search engine data is updated on a nightly basis.
>
> Let me know if this search page will be helpful to readers, or should
> I scrap it.
>
> Thanks.
> Saqib Ali
> http://validate.sf.net
>
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David Lawyer
