[Xapian-discuss] Searching with the Omega

[Tong Sun]

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--- Tong wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I successfully followed the OmegaExample from
> http://wiki.xapian.org/OmegaExample
> 
> and have a working Xapian & Omega. However, I have
> several questions on
> indexing/searching with the Omega.
> 
> . The syntax for omindex is:
> 
>  omindex [OPTIONS] --db DATABASE --url BASEURL
> [BASEDIR] DIRECTORY
> 
>  - what if I need to search for more than one
> directories?
> 
>  - what if I do another omindex on another
> directories, without specifying
>    the --overwrite parameter?
> 
> . I searched the word "tance", which was randomly
> picked from /book/ci_09.htm,
>   
>   - the result was, 
> 
>   /book/ci_27.htm is 100% relevant, /book/ci_09.htm is
> only 79% relevant
> 
>   - but the fact is that /book/ci_27.htm doesn't have
> the word "tance", but 
>     /book/ci_09.htm does. 
> 
>   - same thing happens when searching for "Kermath",
> which was also randomly
>     picked from /book/ci_09.htm
> 
> . Even if the word "tance" is in /book/ci_09.htm, it
> is not returned in 
>   search result synopsis, nor it is highlighted. 
> 
> . The search result ranking seems odd to me. 
> 
>   - I first searched for word "test", the first
> several hits don't even have 
>     the word "test" highlighted in search result
> synopsis. The page that 
>     actually get the word "test" highlighted was
> returned around the 10th hit.
> 
>   - I searched for word "adventure", the 2nd hit does
> not have the word
>     "adventure" highlighted in search result synopsis,
> while the 3rd hit
>     has 2 highlighted "adventure"s. 
> 
> . Just a quick question, is there any way to choose
> "Matching all words" as
>   default when first launching
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/omega.cgi?
> 
> Please comment
> 
> thanks a lot


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