[Egothor-tech] Query results page improvement

[Leo Galambos]

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Filip Koczorowski wrote:

| Is it possible for Egothor to display a fragment of an indexed web
| page in results, like Google does? As it is now, there are only a
| few tokens (words) surrounding the query string in the results. For
| example, a search on "egothor" at
| http://www.egothor.dundee.ac.uk/egothor/ results in: "students
| search centre egothor a java based search engine egothor dundee the
| 4 ..." instead of "Egothor A java based search engine Egothor @
| Dundee The 4th J of Dundee, Jam, Jute, Journalism and Java." which
| makes the results page less readable.
|

Hi,

this is not possible with 1.3.x (unless you write the code). On the
other hand, 2.x comes with a clustering support and this will also
offer much better snippets than today. I guess, this code can be
ported to 1.3 as well.

| One more thing concerning query results - Egothor generates a "page
|  summary" for each result. It happens to be the very first part of
| text on the page ("access keys | text only SOMiS Court Senate RAE
| Hermes All Dundee SOMiS Homepage Privacy Legal Intranet Departments
|  and Offices hosted..." in the earlier example). It is not very
| useful when indexing a group of pages with static content as the
| first paragraph, eg. a portal where each page has a navigational
| menu first. Any hints on how to make a better use of "page
| summary"?


If you can use HTdig's tag "nohtdig" (see their documentation), then
you can specify what part of the page is processed and what part is
skipped over.

Cheers,
Leo

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Leo Galambos
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, DSE
Malostranske namesti 25
Prague 1
CZE

http://kocour.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~galambos/
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