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Natalie Pendragon natpen at natpen.net

Mon Mar 2 12:07:38 GMT 2020

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 07:25:24PM -0800, Bradley D. Thornton wrote:
> Yes that is preferable from my perspective. It's a problem with
> VERONICA and VERONICA2 that only indexes the text in the selector
> strings. Although that is highly useful, it is  no substitute for
> indexing the actual content itself.

Wow, I had no idea that's how Veronica worked - no wonder I've hadtrouble (re)finding some things with it in the past!

In addition to this thread, I've had a couple other conversations andvotes for content-based indexing over network-based indexing. So, Ithink I'll keep it that way for now, and focus on improving thetokenization/indexing quality.

I also just added search suggestions in the case of no results found,which could be helpful in the case the searcher makes a query typo. Italso helps in the case of legitimately no results, which isn't toofar-fetched given the small amount of content we currently have :P

If anyone has other thoughts about desired features or undesiredanti-features please let me know. I want to make something useful, butI also want to make sure the project is kind and respectful to Geminicontent creators :)

Natalie