According to Narayan S. Raja:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > According to Narayan S. Raja:
> > > With 3.2.0b3, now the Javascript and other HTML stuff
> > > is no longer excerpted -- but the search results are
> > > very different! I.e., if I index and search the
> > > same site with 3.1.5, I get very good searches; but if
> > > I index and search with 3.2.0b3, the search results are
> > > of much poorer quality.
> > >
> > > How can I configure 3.2.0b3 to use whatever indexing
> > > and/or searching algorithms 3.1.5 was using, so that
> > > I get similar search results from the two versions?
>
> > It might help if you described in more detail exactly how the results
> > are of poorer quality. Are you getting less matches than before, are
> > they being scored such that the top matches are less relevant, or is the
> > problem something else?
>
> For example, the pages which were the top matches
> with version 3.1.5 are way down on the list with 3.2.0b3,
> even though the <TITLE> of those pages contain the
> keywords being searched for!
Well, I'm not aware of changes in 3.2 that would alter relative weights
of different types of words that drastically. You might want to try
tweaking your title_factor, as well as other *_factor attributes, to
see if you can get rankings that are more to your liking.
--
Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
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