Web4Lib Archive searching improved!

[Roy Tennant]

This past week I finally got around to upgrading the search engine on the 
Web4Lib archive from SWISH to our improved version SWISH-Enhanced. You 
have only Bob Duncan (duncanr at lafvax.lafayette.edu) to thank, as he was 
tenacious enough to stay after me until I fixed it. 

The bugs in SWISH were what had originally spurred me to request 
permission from Kevin Hughes to fix it. We then further enhanced it with 
such things as META tag support. This new version will greatly improve 
the accuracy of your search results, so please accept my apology for 
allowing this problem to go on for so long.

There is another problem, however, that I am still trying to solve. 
Hypermail, which we use to provide browsing of the archive, puts in links
to other messages to provide navigation. Unfortunately, by putting in the
subject lines of other messages this creates false drops. I've 
investigated the quick fix to no avail. So until I find an appropriate 
solution, please be aware that you will always get more hits than you 
should. Again, my apology for the situation. 

Also, I will be leaving in a few days for some back-to-back trips that 
will basically put me out of touch for two weeks. I hope to be checking 
mail here and there, but I will not be monitoring bounced mail or 
removing subscribers. My colleague and old Web4Lib hand Dave Rez will be 
taking over the helm in my absence. If you need personal assistance from 
November 1 - 17, please email drez at library.berkeley.edu.
Thanks,
Roy Tennant
Web4Lib Owner