[Xapian-discuss] Omega question

[Jim Lynch]

richard at lemurconsulting.com wrote:

>On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:53:57PM -0400, Bbanneli at aol.com wrote:
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>>Hello, can ads be put in the Omega search results? Thanks,  Butch.
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>No, it'll make us cry.
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>Seriously, there's no reason you couldn't modify a template to incorporate
>adverts from some other source, or merge the output of Omega with some adverts
>before displaying the results to the user.  However, we're not likely to do any
>work in this direction in the forseable future.
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>It might be interesting to use Xapian to select adverts to be displayed,
>appropriate to the context of a page.  To do this properly, you'd probably want
>to write some code on top of Omega, or use Xapian directly (or through the
>bindings), rather than trying to do it in omegascript.
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>If you have a more specific question about how to do this, the more details you
>supply in your question, the more specific we'll be able to be in helping you.
>One line emails are usually hard to give a very useful response to.
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If I were doing it, I'd write my own web page with ads and my own format 
and call omega using an xml format.  That way I'd have complete control 
over the content of the page and the format of the form elements.

Jim.