Björnke's Docu2 dictionary tool. On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:02 AM Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> William Prothero wrote: > > > Regarding tagging, searching, etc, I’ve experienced very primitive > > search boxes and they can be extremely primitive. (read useless > > almost). It is very difficult to build a great search system. Google > > has done that. It is possible to get Google to index web pages. > > Perhaps there should be thought given to taking advantage of Google > > search to get the context information that we need from the > > dictionary. > > The degree of difficulty in delivering good search results is in > proportion to the conceptual range of queries and the size of the data > being searched. > > If we want to provide accurate search results for everything from > "arrayEncode" to "Britney Spears", and do so across billions of Web > pages, best leave that to the pros. > > But to search for terms related to LiveCode keywords is a much smaller > problem, both in conceptual scope and index size. > > Besdies, with LiveCode we need an embedded search engine, something > small and nimble enough to be usable on any computer even when not > connected to the Internet. > > The scripts for indexing and retrieving content isn't the hard part. > The hard part is prioritizing it so it gets done. > > Truly great indexing can be a lifetime's work; indeed for many it is. > > But our needs are so modest, and our current search so limited, that > even just a non-stemmed full-text index of the current Dictionary, with > extra weight for token names, would satisfy a majority of requests quite > well using data already in hand and reasonably simple scripts. > > If we then add crowd-source tags, the index would get ever smarter over > time with minimal scripting effort. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > LiveCode Community Manager > rich...@livecode.org > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
