<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Jimmy Wales <<a href="mailto:jwales@wikia.com">jwales@wikia.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Just pinging this list to make sure everyone here is seeing the new<br>
launch today... lots of new features, new and much better index, etc.<br>
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Getting favorable reviews so far...<br><a href="http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/options/search-l" target="_blank"></a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Cool! looks like a lot of progress in the right direction. I love the stars, and the ability to add results.<br><br>I'm curious about a technical aspect of it - adding a result is easy (it's just a Lucene document add, I'd expect), but how do you handle the stars? I'm theorizing that the stars are a weight that is applied to the search term (and the search term is a term in a field in Lucene) - are you operating directly on the lucene index at a low level, or applying the weight in some kind of secondary sorting operation? I only know a little about Lucene, but I'm trying to soak up more ;-)<br clear="all">
<br>Keep up the good work,<br>Aerik<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.wikidweb.com">http://www.wikidweb.com</a> - the Wiki Directory of the Web<br><a href="http://tagthis.info">http://tagthis.info</a> - Hosted Tagging for your website!