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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