October 15, 2004

Now (almost) a real search engine

Since we're now able to index real data that's already in the wayback machine, I set it up to link straight to it...and it works. As long as the page is in the wayback machine, the links will work. Feel free to test it out. Other than that...I've done some refactoring and asthetic work...StringTemplate has proven quite useful...the entire search field is now a template, and I've set up the links for search results with multiple pages...the regular expression I had to use for that was giving me trouble, but I finally got it. Fixed up the passing of the search terms string, so that string with quotes in them won't get cut off when they're passed from page to page...plus signs are causing issues though, because of the way stuff is automatically encoded and decoded. Other than that though, everything seems to be running smoothly...now to work on some of the real time-based searching features Chris and I have been discussing.

Posted by defendio at October 15, 2004 12:09 PM
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