Searching your Web pages

[John Gladstone]

In performing a side by side comparison of a single directory and 
limiting the index to only .html files I found swish returned about 12% 
fewer hits than WAISQ. I first noticed this on a larger scale across our 
whole website, but wanted to control the index to make sure I wasn't 
comparing apples and oranges.
Has anyone else had similar or differing results when swish is compared 
to wais or glimpse?

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			John Gladstone /jgladsto at nal.usda.gov
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On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, John Millard wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 Ian Winship wrote:
> 
> >If there is a facility to search the text of your institution's Web pages I
> >would be pleased to know what search engine is used and where the 
> >software, or
> >further details of it, can be found.
> 
> 
> I've just finished writing a PERL gateway script that provides a web
> interface to the SWISH search software.  The wwwwais gateway will also
> work, but I needed to access the neat features of swish (like limiting to
> html tags)   
> 
> I also needed to be able to easily customize the interface and the format
> of returned records.  PERL worked well.
> 
> The script itself is almost ready to be distributed.  If anyone wants it, 
> send me email.  
> 
> In addition to the script, you'll have to install and configure SWISH 
> (Simple Web Indexing System for Humans)  written by Kevin Hughes.  You 
> can find more information at 
> 	URL: http://www.eit.com/goodies/software/swish/swish.html
> 
> -John
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