+2 for google: a) no additional traffic to the mailing list. This could be significant for trivial search engines. b) speed - google responds in miliseconds c) google's NLP is state of the art. No way <1k people team effort could come close to what you get for free.
Just my 2c, -T On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 13:40 Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > This sounds vaguely like a homework assignment. > > My advice would be to think about what information you'd need to have > to be able to do the things you are describing, and then think about > how to get that information. > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 8:25 AM Daniel Ortiz > <elamigodanielor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > May anyone please lead me in making a small search engine for this > mailing > > list's archives and another one? All it needs to do is return the links > > that contains the words you put in regardless of space, order, location, > or > > capitalization. The words also don't have to be all in there. Don't > concern > > yourselves as much with the ranking system since that is secondary and > > could be left out, but a ranking system that has ranking from the > greatest > > percentage to lowest percentage of words then in the search and ranking > > from the first to the last word in the search (an example of that in > action > > is if the search has "programming FORTRAN" then it places first the links > > with both words then the links with the first word then the link with the > > last word) would make it more useful. > > From, Daniel Ortiz >
