Reply to: New version of SKA - v0.1.5

[AtW]

AtW, are you running Linux as your host platform?

No it runs on Windows, but client was ported to Linux and I expect to have server ported to code that runs on Linux (using Mono) in matter of days if not hours.

Linux does not offer many advantages at this point to bother moving server.

[Churchill]

In what way?

PS.

I am never wrong. Ask my wife.

AtW, are you running Linux as your host platform?

[DimPrawn]

Wrong....!

In what way?

PS.

I am never wrong. Ask my wife.

[AtW]

Wrong....!

Missed this question -- I don't use IIS, I used my own mini webserver written from scratch, while I can easily support multiple hosts on the same port, I am not too keen to keep heavy search threads in lightweight server.

That said I expect to use port 80 for searches shortly.

[Churchill]

Are you using IIS?

You can use host headers to support multiple websites on port 80 using a single IP. But I guess you are using that Linux rubbish rather than rock solid secure and almost free Windows....

Wrong....!

[DimPrawn]

Are you using IIS?

You can use host headers to support multiple websites on port 80 using a single IP. But I guess you are using that Linux rubbish rather than rock solid secure and almost free Windows....

[AtW]

"QPR director gun" without quotes returns 6 sites totally unrelated to the events at QPR on the weekend.

Now this is likely due to the fact that currently "up-to-dateness" and "current events" are not search engine's strong points.

45 mln URLs that were loaded (700 mln+ more in archives that need to be processed) were processed in chronological order and currently relate to data collected up to end of January.

[AtW]

AtW - why are you forcing users to use port 8888 to access the search engine?

Because port 80 is taken by the server and I want to make sure that those who crawl get best chance to communicate with server. Can integrate search engine into server itself, but I did not want to until its mature because don't want heavy search threads running in the same server.

I did a search for "blue faced boobies" - with the quotes.

Quotes are currently not supported (ignored) even though I have all proximity information in place to support them -- next version should support these.

Pages 1 - 9 fine. Page 10 only has 3 results. Pages 11 onwards are blank

Gotta investigate later, thanks for finding bug!

[G8_Summit]

Somethings wrong with the paging.

Searched for "fish batter" (no quotes) - returned with "Results 1 - 10 of about 1,568 for fish batter".

Pages 1 - 9 fine. Page 10 only has 3 results. Pages 11 onwards are blank

[DimPrawn]

Majestic search engine is early days - alpha release.

I don't think Google have anything to worry about just yet.

[insight14]

"QPR director gun" without quotes returns 6 sites totally unrelated to the events at QPR on the weekend.

Google returned "about 53500", of which at least the first 30 were exactly what I was looking for.

Is SKA some kind of search engine with censorship filters? Might go down well in China and Norh Korea, but not sure about the rest of the world!

[threaded]

Lycos?

[PRC1964]

I did a search for "blue faced boobies" - with the quotes.

SKA came back with about 171 sites most of which are for porn.

Google came back with about 54 sites all of which are about birds.


I leave it to you to decide which search engine I'll be using.

[Churchill]

Hey, AtW, I just had an idea - Why not rename your app SKUA - "Super Killer User App". The skua is a type of sea gull that survives by scrounging what it can find see http://www.70south.com/resources/ani.../antarcticskua :

It's also a rather effective missile...

[DimPrawn]

You probably don't have port 8888 open on your proxy/firewall

AtW - why are you forcing users to use port 8888 to access the search engine?