[gopher] Possible to perform item type searches in Veronica-2?

[Rob Sayers]

Not sure if this is of any interest or not, but I worked on a full text
gopher search engine a few years back that I never really finished
completing: https://github.com/rsayers/gophersearch

IIRC, the main issue was the crawler sometimes fouling up and not
behaving correctly, but what it did crawl, you could search as expected.

--
Rob Sayers - N5RAS http://www.robsayers.com



On Sun, Dec 28, 2014, at 05:48 PM, Wesley Teal wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 7:46 PM, James Mills
> <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Wesley Teal
>> <wesleyteal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When doing searches, I've actually found Veronica-2/VISHNU have been
>>> pretty good. That said, item type filtering would be awesome. I've
>>> also been thinking about a full-text search engine for a years,
>>> mostly because I've been wanting to give myself the headache (I
>>> mean: find the time) to implement one. Maybe someday ...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Wanna team up with me to build one?
>
> Sure, I'd be open to that. Drop me a line off list at
> wesleyteal at gmail.com if you want.
>
> A caveat: I'm not a particularly proficient programmer (another reason
> I haven't given a gopher search engine a go). I have a humanities
> background with only a few CS-type courses.
>
>
> Wesley
>>
>> The thing about Veronica-2 -- searching basd on titles is that titles
>> have to be have useful titiles :)
>>
>> Often that may (or may not) be the case :)
>>
>> And in either case you tend to end up searching for resources (by
>> title) rather then by resources (by content).
>>
>> I think :)
>>
>> I think full-text searching would complement Veronica-2 nicely IHMO
>> (but Cameron doesn't want to go that way... which is okay)
>>
>> I was thinking of utilizing whoosh[1] and related tool(s).
>>
>> cheers James
>>
>> [1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whoosh
>>
>>
>> James Mills / prologic
>>
>> E:prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
>> W:prologic.shortcircuit.net.au
>>
>>
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