At 12:06 PM -0400 5/10/01, Tod Thomas wrote:
>Can htdig provide collaborative filtering, social agents, natural
>language analysis, support for parsing a large
>number of file formats, the way some of the purchased products claim to?
IMHO, the best place to compare search engines is the ever-useful
<http://www.searchtools.com/>
As for your question, I think most of these "features" are a fair
amount of jargon. For one, ht://Dig can parse a wide variety of file
formats and includes support for external parsers and external
converters (i.e. the latter can be programs that convert to other
supported formats).
I don't know how useful natural language processing is, to be honest.
I still find that search engines with NLP are more responsive to
careful keyword searching than to a "natural query." Most queries
I've seen in logs are of the keyword variety too.
As for collaborative filtering and social agents, they're not
supported by ht://Dig. I don't know how useful they are--note that
perhaps the most widely-used general search engine is Google and it
does not offer these features.
Regards,
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-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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