[gemini] Re: [ANN] houston - yet another gemini search engine

[kristof]

On 20/05/21 12:25AM, Luke Emmet wrote:

> It seems to work well - it is nice to see some snippets coming back, not
> just the path/filename.

Ye, I wanted to be able to show where the 'match' comes from, so people
can judge in a more informed way if it's relevant.

> A couple of minor thoughts for your consideration
>
> 1. Would be useful to have a link at the top of each results page to allow
> user to refine their search

Sure, makes sense

> 2. Might be better UI to display snippets as bullets. That way clients that
> prettily handle them will be able to show them nicely. I dont think it
> matters to enumerate them 1 to 5.

I'll have to read the gemini spec again :P

> 3. Is there a way for the user to lengthen the snippets, perhaps there could
> be some alternative URLs that allow longer or shorter results shown.

That should be easily done, in principle I could also allow the
modification of the number of highlights returned (currently max 5).

> 4. Maybe there needs to be some pagination of the results if too many are
> shown, or maybe that is not a problem yet...

Currently not a problem, and when it becomes a problem I think I prefer
to just cap the result set. Using other (http) search engines showed me
that everything not on page 1 is probably not relevant anyway and if I
would offer [1] people could refine the search to be more relevant.

> otherwise - keep up the good work!

Thanks for the comments, they're very useful!

k