Re: [platform-ua-dev] searching dynamic content: two approaches

[Dorian Birsan <birsan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

platform-ua-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/02/2006
06:44:57 PM:

> 
> I'd like to get some opinions from the community about how to proceed
on the 
> following issue: 
> 
> Now that we've added dynamic content capabilities to user assistance,
we are 
> faced with having to support searching this content. There are two
basic 
> approaches we can take, with advantages and disadvantages to each.
I would 
> like to know which one will be most acceptable to users. 
> 
> 1. Show the results accurately, but at a potentially significant performance
> hit (depending on how many documents you have with dynamic content).


Any numbers here ? Can you quantify the performance
loss?

> 2. Show all potential hits. This means it will find things in sections
that 
> would be filtered if you were to open the document. There is no performance
loss here. 
> 
> It would be possible to do both approaches, and allow the user to
switch, in 
> which case we would pick a default. 
> 
> So the basic question is: Which one is most important for searching,
accuracy or speed?

Both :-)

I think your question is which of the two alternatives
should be the default behavior. In that case, I would go with #2. Even
if sections of documents are hidden,if they contain relevant information
to what one searches for, they may be good candidates. 

Can you briefly describe the algorithms in both scenarios?

> 
> Thanks, 
> Curtis d'Entremont
> Eclipse User Assistance
> IBM Toronto Lab
> 
> Phone: (905) 413-5754
> E-Mail: curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx
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-Dorian