Re: [MacPerl] Runtime aete Questions

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

On 2/11/1999 at 13:26, pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) wrote:

> Someone already wrote a plugin for reference.perl.com (although he said it
> was for CPAN).  I had one for the WAIT engine.  But it doesn't work,
> because Sherlock limits the URLs to 255 characters, and the resulting URLs
> are significantly longer than that.  So this will give you results, but you
> can't click on them.  Also, WAIT provides relevance, but Sherlock only does
> 0 to 100 for relevance, and WAIT does 0 to 1000.  There should be ways to
> se "relevanceScaleBegin = 0, relevanceScaleEnd = 1000" or something.
> 
> And URLs should be allowed to be longer than 255 characters.

Very interesting and I see what you mean (tho I thought a few links were going
to work at first when I tried this). This also explains why I am occasionally
getting bad links back from other search engines using Sherlock. The relevancy
scale may be a problem, but it's academic if the results are truncated anyway.


Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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