RaySearch

Dear all,

I understand that many of you are busily preparing their presentations
for the Workshop, but hope that you can spare 5 minutes of your
precious time.

I've been toying about with a search engine that is fed with URLs
specific to Radiance, so results will not be watered-down by all the
other radiance things out there. Those of you that run servers
themselves and read their log files regularly might have noticed some
extra traffic this weekend caused by RaySearchBot. Hope this didn't
cause any hardware to catch fire, and I do apologize for any
inconvenience this might have caused.

Here is the link: http://luxal.dachary.org/raysearch/index.shtml

You'll find the sites and pages that are indexed on the Stats and
Sites page. I tried to guess what the structures of your sites are,
and how to get most of the pages relevant to the Radiance users, but
chances are that not all of what you see in the list is correct.

So: If you run one of those sites, please get in touch with me
off-list, so we can:
- discuss some optimization,
- remove your site if you don't wish to be included
- work out any problems

Anybody else is welcome to make any other suggestions on-list, e.g.
other pages that I am not aware of or simply forgot. The system is
still a bit rough around the edges, which is why I am not posting to
general yet, but please do try it out and let me know what you think.

For now, I intend to focus solely on technical infos on Radiance, and
don't want to include consultancy, general (day-)light stuff etc.
There are also still problems with non-english texts, Php-generated
sites (Francesco), and some PDFs.

Cheers

Axel

Hi Axel,

it works great! The only thing I'd like to propose is to make an own search option for the mailing lists' archives. For every term you get ml-posts on the first hits. Something like google's group search may be appropriate for this to distinguish between ml and web ressources. A simple exclude of the mailing lists' archives would be fine for the web search, an exclusive search in the archive pages for mailing list search would complete that. So what I would like to see is two tabs - one for the list, one for web ressources and the rest.

Thank You!!!

Lars.

The only thing I'd like to propose is to make an own
search option for the mailing lists' archives. For every term you get
ml-posts on the first hits. Something like google's group search may be
appropriate for this to distinguish between ml and web ressources. A
simple exclude of the mailing lists' archives would be fine for the web
search,...

You want it? You got it! I also added an option for file types. Only
on the front page for now.

an exclusive search in the archive pages for mailing list search
would complete that.

Would be easy enough, but this functionality is already implemented on r-o.org

So what I would like to see is two tabs - one for
the list, one for web ressources and the rest.

Let's just call it 'options', not 'tabs'.

Axel

You want it? You got it!

Perfect :wink: Thanks for this new service to the radiance community!

Lars.