Improvements to Search Page

Reply #8

emilyg — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:52:29 GMT

thanks - real good

Reply #7

Tenaj — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:15:31 GMT

Thanks Todd

Reply #6

Lucky — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:02:30 GMT

Just finished playing with it...nice improvement Todd...

Reply #5

Todd — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:45:30 GMT

I tried adding those features, but they turned out to be a bit beyond my abilities

Reply #4

lottaloot — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:31:13 GMT

Going to give it a try now.

Thanks Todd.

Reply #3

Snakeyes — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:22:40 GMT

Yea, it works great; much better than previous searches. Now, can you have it search for tomorrows numbers; all states, with 100% accuracy? How about search for the t.v. remote that is never there when I want it?

Thanks for continuing to enhance this site!

Snakeyes

Reply #2

Todd — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:52:59 GMT

Great, thanks

Reply #1

ducksafloat — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:34:33 GMT

Hey Todd,

Just tried the feature and here's what I think

Improvements to Search Page

Todd — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:20:51 GMT

I finally finished the long process of re-jiggering the Lottery Post Search engine so that it produces improved matching for keywords that you enter.

Some of the important improvements include:

Increased emphasis on matching text in the Subject line (like how Google works).Ignores any text that is quoted from previous posts, so that the search only looks at new text posted by the author. (Eliminates many false or redundant matches.)On the search results page, shows better summary of the m... [ More ]