... in response to Re: Re: Patrick - Question about archive..., posted by Sol on Nov 24, 2001I already strip out the non-relevant words before the search begins unless the user encloses the phrase in quotes. I could add more results, but without a limit, it can go into the thousands when people search for something very common like "latin". They'd be waiting quite a while for the results to come back since it would seach through every archive starting with the most recent and work backward through them all. It currently stops the search after the maximum number of allowed results are found.
I plan on modifying the archiving scheme to allow for many more archives and the amount of material searched will be going up. I'll see how slow it gets then when searching through the entire archive.
One other suggestion already made was to include a link to the thread the post came from, which I plan to implement. I'm still working on the script that generates all the agency list pages and profiles. After that I have to set up an automated link checker to make sure the listed agencies are still on-line to keep the list active. Then I need to get the banner advertising back on line (been down since last December). After all that, I can work on the search engine again.
