> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yeah, I've been thinking about it. There was one site that has offered me
> > > > to provide a good search engine and they did, but the problem is that they
> > > > didn't keep up with new releases, so people were searching the outdated
> > > > version, which is quite bad -- I've removed the reference to it, after
> > > > asking them to update their copy for a few months, with no results.
> > >
> > > Can't we use WWW::Search - If I recall correctly some of the sites can be
> > > restricted to a domain, so you could build a search interface pretty
> > > easily.
> >
> > DESCRIPTION :
> > This class is the parent for all access methods supported by the
> > WWW::Search library. This library implements a Perl API to web-based
> > search engines.
> >
> > It's not the search engine -- it's a Perl API to the search engines. We
> > need a search engine not the API to it. Did I miss something?
>
> Yes. On some of the search engines (AltaVista springs to mind) you can
> search for things on particular web sites, or even links to particular web
> sites. So as long as AltaVista keeps its search contents up to date, you
> can leverage their engine. IIRC either Randall or Lincoln did a
> WebTechniques article about this a few months ago.
Oh, I see.
But I want to stress these 2 points:
1) Currently each chapter in the Guide is a huge document, so doing search
and having a hit, doesn't really help as you still have to go thru the
page to find the exact section that you want to read. So I think we want a
search engine that's not working with the master version per se, but with
a copy which has name anchors for each line and:
a. can bring you to exact line with match
b. have the keyword highlighted
2) Most of the search engines have problems with keywords including
non-alpha chars, like if you search for Apache::Registry you will end up
searching for Apache and Registry since :: is ignored. Now think about
'$r->print' 'BEGIN {', '$@', etc. All these are must for the doc with many
non-alpha characters which should be searched for.
What do you think?
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