Re: search library battle royale

Hi Jeff,

>Once we've settled on which search
>software to use, I promise to make sure there's a "help" link
>leading to some examples. In the meantime,  here's some
>documentation from the two vendors. To my eye, they are both
>offer ridiculously overpowered. Kind of like monster trucks. :)



Thanks for your time and the examples you developed. And thanks for 
your promise to post a help link. Please keep in mind that when those 
of you who already know a process try to explain it to those of us 
who don't, the result, far too often, is about as clear as mud.



>Xapian even has a super fancy algorithm that tries to figure out
>subtopics within search results. It is way too confusing for my taste,
>but you can see it action below. Apparently the software thinks
>you are into dipleidoscopes and ebay. Are you?
>
>http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/omega/omega?P=%22Mac+Oglesby%22&DEFAULTOP=or&DB=sundial%40rrz.uni-koeln.de&FMT=query.orig&xP=Rmac.Roglesby.machin.&xDB=sundial%40rrz.uni-koeln.de&xFILTERS=--O



Well, just about everyone is into eBay. And if you aren't into 
dipleidoscopes yet, what's holding you back?    ;-)

It's almost frightening how much information we voluntarily put out 
there for anyone to see!

It's beyond frightening to see what that Xapian search string looks like!

On the other hand, it seems as though you intend to improve our 
archive search tools and help us understand how to use them.

Thank you.

Mac

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