[thelist] loopy URLs produced by search engines

Tony Crockford tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Thu Aug 29 07:52:01 CDT 2002


> The search engines people have mentioned here highlight the
> search terms in
> the 'results' page. What Jakob's search engine does is
> highlight the search
> terms in the _actual_ pages as well - so when you've clicked
> through to the
> content and start reading the article, you can see exactly
> where your search
> terms appear in the text.

Fluffy search does that, Htdig does not (highlights words in summary on
results page)

to do it you have to keep a copy of the page you've indexed and deliver
an amended version of the html to show the highlighting, hence the
reluctance by search engines to do it.

having said that, there's some very interesting technology at work here:

http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/

where you can search through facsimile copies (scanned images) of
newspapers and have your search word highlighted on the image (spooky,
darlings...)

Who'd like to guess how that works then?

;o)

Tony




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