Hi there, I just created gemini://houston.coder.town It's a very, very barebones search at this time. Features are: * Very simple * Returns parts of the text where your search matches Plans: * More advanced search methodology * Better and more exhaustive indexing It uses a custom client and server. There's probably still a bunch of bugs. Let me know what you think.
On 20-May-2020 22:55, kristof wrote: > I just created gemini://houston.coder.town > > It's a very, very barebones search at this time. > > <snip> > > It uses a custom client and server. There's probably still a bunch of > bugs. > > Let me know what you think. It seems to work well - it is nice to see some snippets coming back, not just the path/filename. A couple of minor thoughts for your consideration 1. Would be useful to have a link at the top of each results page to allow user to refine their search 2. Might be better UI to display snippets as bullets. That way clients that prettily handle them will be able to show them nicely. I dont think it matters to enumerate them 1 to 5. 3. Is there a way for the user to lengthen the snippets, perhaps there could be some alternative URLs that allow longer or shorter results shown. 4. Maybe there needs to be some pagination of the results if too many are shown, or maybe that is not a problem yet... otherwise - keep up the good work! - Luke
On 20/05/21 12:25AM, Luke Emmet wrote: > It seems to work well - it is nice to see some snippets coming back, not > just the path/filename. Ye, I wanted to be able to show where the 'match' comes from, so people can judge in a more informed way if it's relevant. > A couple of minor thoughts for your consideration > > 1. Would be useful to have a link at the top of each results page to allow > user to refine their search Sure, makes sense > 2. Might be better UI to display snippets as bullets. That way clients that > prettily handle them will be able to show them nicely. I dont think it > matters to enumerate them 1 to 5. I'll have to read the gemini spec again :P > 3. Is there a way for the user to lengthen the snippets, perhaps there could > be some alternative URLs that allow longer or shorter results shown. That should be easily done, in principle I could also allow the modification of the number of highlights returned (currently max 5). > 4. Maybe there needs to be some pagination of the results if too many are > shown, or maybe that is not a problem yet... Currently not a problem, and when it becomes a problem I think I prefer to just cap the result set. Using other (http) search engines showed me that everything not on page 1 is probably not relevant anyway and if I would offer [1] people could refine the search to be more relevant. > otherwise - keep up the good work! Thanks for the comments, they're very useful! k
May 21, 2020 4:26 PM, "kristof" <k at kvn.dev> wrote: >> 4. Maybe there needs to be some pagination of the results if too many are >> shown, or maybe that is not a problem yet... > > Currently not a problem, and when it becomes a problem I think I prefer > to just cap the result set. Using other (http) search engines showed me > that everything not on page 1 is probably not relevant anyway and if I > would offer [1] people could refine the search to be more relevant. http search engines have quite a many results on a page, usually also it's usually first 3 pages that have relevant information, top 5 results are usually engineered and not relevent anyway, for www, also the extra results help to see how the query should be refined, such as "ice -cream" or whatnot maybe make a "brief" and a "detailed" version, latter of which has longer descriptions and pagination (or simply a long page of the results?) if you search for "blog" for example, you're bound to get more results than fit...and you might well want to see all of them... related, maybe an option to reduce the hits on a single domain or directory? resulting in a hit, and at the end of the snippet or something, "and 7 other results from $domain" or such, obviously that is different enough that should be optional, if a feature at all idk, maybe I'm overcomplicating and overthingking it all...
On 21-May-2020 14:26, kristof wrote: >> 2. Might be better UI to display snippets as bullets. That way clients that >> prettily handle them will be able to show them nicely. I dont think it >> matters to enumerate them 1 to 5. > I'll have to read the gemini spec again :P It would just be really simple like this => gemini://host1/path1 display text 1
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