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From: Richard Huxton <[email protected]>
To: Robert Bernier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [BUGS] BUG #2560: Web page documentation hard
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:12:44 +0100
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Robert Bernier wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 13:33, Robert Treat wrote:
>>> ASPSeek can as well (they're called stopwords) but it won't help in this
>>> case because even if we don't ignore IN et al. it'll still match
>>> virtually every page.
>> What would be nice would be to have a first level of human specified
>> keywords that return specific information, above and beyond the general
>> search.  This could operate similarly to rtfm_please on irc or my rtfmbot
>> on AIM.  This way when someone searches on something like IN, we can say
>> "you're probably looking for this --> link"    If there are general search
>> results, we could show them after the pre-spelected links.
> 
> 
> Could a set of links be returned, somewhere on the page, that would always 
> refer to one or more keywords when a single word is used as the search 
> criteria?

Could we not just score the index more highly than other pages?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/bookindex.html

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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