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I'm not sure what this tool does. Can you give a clearer explanation of what this tool is for, or maybe an example of how it would be useful? Also, the front p
by arockwell 17y ago
I'm not sure what this tool does. Can you give a clearer explanation of what this tool is for, or maybe an example of how it would be useful?
Also, the front page of the site needs to make this goal explicitly clear. Instead, the front page gives almost no indication of what this is for, and shows a lot of weird sounding empty result sets.
- gtani 17y agoOK, i'll try: (This is obviously a big topic) This database is a topic map for for several software domains: Ruby, javascript, erlang, .. There are 4 levels to the topic map hierarchy, so you'll see 4 headings on the left, separated by "_,_". I've run this database through several fulltext search engines. The only one active and returning hits at present is Sphinx, since this is running on a pretty low-memory VPS. Ignore the other sections. Essentially the difference between this search and, say, google, is that all of the words entered in the query must match a database record for that record to be returned as a hit. This is different from Google, which will return documents matching only some query terms. I think this returns quick feedback to the user that either they need to change query terms, or that topic is simply not covered in the database.
- arockwell 17y agoThe __.__ as a seperator is way too visually distracting. Why not just a '|'? Also, 4 levels might be too much information. The result links are hard to read as well. I have no idea what the numbers mean... perhaps it should just say result? Whitespace between each line would help readability as well. The whole result page is wall of text.