RDS web-page search
Hello all, RDS?
I was playing around with the RDS web site and trying to see
what I could do with the search engine on the recent users
contributions page.
The first thing I noticed is that the search engine uses a
logical OR and doesn's seem to support any thing else.
For example: I type: "Lewis Townsend" w/o the quotes and
I get everything I ever contributed plus one from Mathew Lewis
Not that I have problem with Mathew ;) but I tried to exclude
him from the results by trying the following:
using quotes arround "Lewis Townsend"
This only returned one of my contributions. I guess a
left over from a time that that these entries had quotes
around them.
typing "Lewis and Townsend" w/o quotes
This gave me a bunch of results that have no reference to
my name but I assume DO have the word "and" in them.
Note that my stuff was in there too and near the top.
Then I wondered: "what if I want to find all contributions
that have been voted for in the micro-economy"
The word "happy" or "happy.gif" seems to work if anyone
is interested. I then tried finding all stamped items.
"stamp" or "stamp.gif" works for this. However, the
next thing I tried was to find all DOS programs or all
windows or linux programs. I looked at the html source of
the page (I trust that wasn't immoral) and noticed that the
pink color of dos programs is caused by the
bgcolor="#FFCCCC"
clause in the <tr> tag. I thought that I was really clever
when I typed "FFCCCC" into the search box but I got no
results. I tried several variations and one for windows too
but no luck. I assume that the search engine just searches for
phrases after the <tr> and not inside it.
Well, I guess the main thing I was wondering is if it would
be too hard to expand the capabilities of the search engine
on the RDS website. If it's just for me, don't bother, but
it might be handy for others too.
later,
Lewis Townsend
keroltarr at hotmail.com
http://geocities.com/keroltarr/
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