Re: Client-side seaching proposal

Sebastian Hammer ([email protected])
Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:21:10 +0100


> > > The idea I propose is to allow URLs to contain a search keyword for
> > > client-side searching. Most browsers allow you to search a document
> > > for strings.
> >
> > Sounds like a good idea. If done, we should support a syntax that
> > has multiple keywords: http://x.edu/xxx#/jump,link,hypertext
> >
> > Dave Hollander
>
> Do you mean, look for "jump", but if you can't find it try "link",
> then "hypertext" ? sounds reasonable.
>
> If not, you might be complicating a simple idea.

I support the notion of multiple-parallel search terms. You need to
deal with both multiple search terms, and different hits on the
same (original) search term, eg. through stemming, truncation, etc.

> regards,
> rob

--Sebastian

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