On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 03:16:06PM -0700, Jeff Marshall wrote:
> In major search engines like Google and Yahoo, this relevance ordering
> makes the most sense.
Google Groups and Google News both offer a choice of "date" or
"relevance" (date being "most recent first").
> Perhaps in our specialized mailing list searching, freshness matters
> more than relevance?
I think it depends on the user and query.
Incidentally, Gmane's search offers both these and also "reverse date",
which shows the oldest matches first - not so useful in general, but
people requested it and it's easy to do once you've implemented sorting
by "date". It lets people find their "first post" if nothing else!
Cheers,
Olly
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