[thelist] search engine issue (development issue that is)

[Feingold Josh S]

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Chris -

Here's an idea.  When the user searches the first time for an item, they are
returned the top 20 (or whatever number you deem relevant) results of the
query. These results are ranked via the stored procedure but don't need to
be dropped into a table, just returned to the user.

The page that they are returned will have a link to the next 20 results.
This link should have the query string as well as the number where the
results left off.

e.g. efeingold.com/query=test&recordstart=21

Look at Google's results, I imagine that is what they are doing.

Good luck!
Josh