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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
jrock7286  Account Info
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wow...that's interesting...I did a search on "articulation" (hey, it was the first word I thought of) and it was pretty funny what the first match was...I won't say it here...it'll be funny if you do it yourself. Search the user comments...

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 01:50 GMT


Re: Re: New search engine
Justin McKinley  Account Info

lol, that's great! long article though, sugest "finding on page" though, or you'l never find it...

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 03:13 GMT

Re: New search engine
joeman3429  Account Info

i have a suggestion for the search engine.

if you search the archives it should show what calculator the file is for, just a thought...

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 06:10 GMT


Re: Re: New search engine
Matthew Marshall  Account Info
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I was thinking the same thing.

MWM

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 15:07 GMT

Re: New search engine
Vincent Jünemann  Account Info
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I noticed that you search is sorted on score... Is this the sum of the points it got? if yes that's just plain stupid and destroys the rate idea... If 5 users rate a file with a 5 it will be better than a file rated two times with a 10??? It should be sorted in a mix on average rating and number of ratings!

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 07:30 GMT


Re: Re: New search engine
Vincent Jünemann  Account Info
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On a second thaugh... scrap that... news article have a score too... d'oh... so... what's the score thing about and how do you sort it?

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 07:32 GMT


Re: Re: Re: New search engine
joeman3429  Account Info

i think the score is how relevent it is to what you searched for

Reply to this comment    24 March 2004, 21:20 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
jrock7286  Account Info
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yes that's right...I think it's the number of times the words showed up or something scaled like that...

Reply to this comment    25 March 2004, 05:09 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Joey Gannon  Account Info
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That's correct. To quote the article, "this search engine is based on the tsearch2 package from postgresql, which provides full text indexing with relevance ranking." If you want to know more about how it decides relevance, you could do some googling for tsearch2.

Reply to this comment    25 March 2004, 14:09 GMT

Great job
mike White Account Info
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great job but i was wondering if it would work if when you search for a comment that when you click it it goes to that comment.

is that even possible?
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just finished my web site (good stuff)

Reply to this comment    25 March 2004, 13:44 GMT


Re: Great job
Sam3.14 Account Info

That really would be useful. It is very hard to find a comment right now. Since the comments are split up onto different pages, even Ctrl+F foesn't work.

Reply to this comment    25 March 2004, 21:18 GMT


Re: Re: Great job
joeman3429  Account Info

i bet if you went into your preferences and made it put the maximum number of posts per page, then it would be easier to use Ctrl+F, but then you'd have a really really long page to load

Reply to this comment    25 March 2004, 22:11 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Great job
jrock7286  Account Info
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Which is a problem with my 5 bytes an hour computer ;) It's funny, because I can download at 300+ kb/sec, but to display a webpage, it takes forever because my graphics card can't handle it...

Reply to this comment    26 March 2004, 16:32 GMT

Offtopic - Submissions
nicklaszlo Account Info
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I don't know where else to ask this:
How long does it take to decide if submitted news is accepted? Do you get a message if it's rejected? How do I know it's not just lost?

Reply to this comment    26 March 2004, 00:46 GMT


Re: Offtopic - Submissions
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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If you are not recieving a response from any of the contact e-mail addresses on the page at the link above you need to e-mail postmaster@ticalc.org

Please make sure that you are in fact using the e-mail adress for the correct purpose. For example if you send an e-mail to tutorials@ticalc.org asking for help trying to link your computer to your calculator you will most likely not get a response since that is not what that e-mail address is for.

Reply to this comment    26 March 2004, 07:49 GMT


I sent news to news@ticalc.org
nicklaszlo Account Info
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Well, duh. I guess I should try resending it, even though it's obnoxious for the person who gets two copies. If I still don't get a reply, I'll try postmaster@ticalc.org.

Reply to this comment    26 March 2004, 22:10 GMT


No Reply!
nicklaszlo Account Info
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It turns out that the news editor does not respond to news suggestion emails.

Reply to this comment    27 March 2004, 01:37 GMT

Re: New search engine
Elias Zacarias  Account Info
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Hey! I just came up with a (maybe useless xD) idea!
What about a ranking of "top searches"?. What's most of people searching for?....
May be nice....

Reply to this comment    26 March 2004, 02:03 GMT

Re: Re: New search engine
Eric Wood Account Info
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Sounds promising... B^)

Reply to this comment    26 March 2004, 02:25 GMT


Re: Re: New search engine
jrock7286  Account Info
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That wouldn't work too well, because most searches come up with some unrelated stuff. Also, if someone searched with the word "need," as in "You NEED THIS PROGRAM!!!!" then all the files in the /83plus/basic/math directory would get a good rating...I think that any programmer that goes out of his way to say that his program is great is definitly aware of the fact that it su)(...

Reply to this comment    26 March 2004, 16:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: New search engine
Elias Zacarias  Account Info
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But may be useful information for developers.
Let's say that this mechanism shows up that the most searched word is "rpg", or more specific; "TI82 rpg".
I think that any game developers who access this information, may came up with a RPG game for the TI82.

Reply to this comment    26 March 2004, 19:55 GMT

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