[pmwiki-users] [pmwikiusers] Search rankings/results
GravyFace
gravyface at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 13:41:31 CST 2006
On 1/12/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> By default, search results tend to be ordered by page name.
> This can be changed by using the order= parameter.
I'm not really clear on how to use this "order" parameter. Is that a
query string parameter? What are valid order values?
> At the moment there's not a mechanism for weighting pages based
> on term frequency. It was a topic of discussion sometime last year,
> but thus far I haven't been able to find a good ranking algorithm
> to use (and I don't have any desire to be digging through the source
> code of some other search engine application to find one :-).
>
> At some point I fall back on my "PmWiki is not a search engine"
> philosophy, and say that for advanced, fast full-text searches a
> site will generally be better off setting up a real search engine
> and using it to index PmWiki, rather than us trying to re-invent
> the wheel inside of PmWiki. (Indeed, an advantage of an external
> search engine is that it would be able to index PDFs and other
> pages on a site that aren't wiki pages.)
I completely agree with you -- the search you've provided in pmWiki
may not be "best of breed" but its completely adequate for most search
needs.
> I'm frequently on the lookout for a good search engine platform
> that could be easily installed alongside PmWiki, but so far I
> haven't been too impressed with the ones I've found.
Which ones have you tried?
> Hope this helps,
>
> Pm
>
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