At 08:28 AM 10/27/98 +0100, Seelentag Wolfhart KSSG_RO wrote:
Dear Jim,
ad 2 : how do you specify a subdirectory ? Hotbot is offering something similar - there the command is "+originurlpath:subdir" - at least in theory - doesn't work :-((. Is there a description of the syntax available on the web ?
General comment : as you state - it's only as good as their crawler ! If we want to use it (without confusing people) someone should check which pages are actually found, and submit the missing ones. Just as an example : I have searched for my name (mentioned as page maintainer on almost 100 pages) - only 18 were found ! The same search on the Basel mirror (http://www.eye.ch) found at least 34. If this is average, many people will be confused : they were sure they had seen a word on our pages - and the search doesn't find it :-(.
Yes, very true, also, only as up to date as their crawler. If a new page is added or an old one expanded, it won't show up on the report. I don't think this is fatal however. We could provide instructions indicating that this can happen and also how to navigate the site in other ways (regional index, general help page, etc.) Rick
Doug Schorey had a search routine on a subdirectory on his pages (which have been moved to http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/schori/ in the meantime) : this relied on some script provided by his (former) provider and doesn't work on my swissgen pages. It not only worked for a subdirectory - it worked without relying on any crawler. Would one of you computer experts out there like to contact him ? His address is <dms@netcom.com>.
Best regards - Wolf ---------------------- Wolf W. Seelentag, PhD, e-mail : wolf@swissmail.com Reherstr. 19, CH - 9016 St. Gallen, Switzerland Tel (home) : +41-71-2885121 Tel (work) : +41-71-4942233 Fax : +41-71-4942893
---------- Von: Jim Eggert[SMTP:EggertJ@LL.mit.edu] Gesendet: Montag, 26. Oktober 1998 23:54 An: webpages-l@genealogy.net; genstaff-l@genealogy.net Betreff: [webpages-l] search.html
I've made a rudimentary search capability for our German genealogy website. You can find it at <http://www.genealogy.com/gene/tmp/up/pages/search.html> .......