[Xapian-discuss] patent searches with xapian

[Kevin Webb]

Olly,

The system is essentially public now so feel free to place us your
current users page. I'm in the process of adding a technical
description to the FAQ page and will provide a link to Xapian there.

You are correct about the cookies for the search hits - I do need to
reexamine this to resolve the concern you raised about emailing of
links, etc. I may address at the same time I add the "search inside
this document" feature by putting the search terms into the get string
for each view request...

Thanks for the comments and for your work with Xapian!
kpw


On 11/2/06, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 06:17:59PM -0400, Kevin Webb wrote:
> > Our initial test system is now online and allows searching of
> > documents between 1836 and 1925 (about 1.5 million documents):
>
> Is this intended to be a public test system?  I ask because it doesn't
> seem to be linked from allpatents.org currently.
>
> I can add it to our "current users" page if you like.  A "powered
> by Xapian" reciprocal link is always appreciated (and helping more
> people discover Xapian helps us improve it faster so it benefits you as
> well!)
>
> > Feel free to explore and make comments - if you have any thoughts on
> > how we might improve the interface or the search indexing I'd be glad
> > to chat! I may also write up a summary on how we've managed the text
> > over image markup implementation with Xapian (it's nothing
> > particularly fancy but may be of use to others none the less!)...
>
> I think that would be interesting.  I suspect most people can guess how
> it might be done, but there's nothing quite like the wisdom from actual
> implementation experience.
>
> Does this highlighting rely on cookies to work?  It doesn't work for me
> using Firefox 2.  I declined your cookie and suspect that's why since the
> search terms don't seem to be passed to the results page by any other
> mechanism I can see.
>
> It might be nicer not to use a cookie here, since as it is I can't email
> someone a URL for a particular patent including the highlighting.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>