Techie Stuff - Part 2

04-06-2001, 03:37 AM

JAI GURUDEV
Hi all...

While I am waiting for the final, numerologically selected name for the new
website, I thought I better plan the search mechanism.

Basically, any post will have these elements:
1. Title 2. Summary 3. Author 4. Date 5. Content 6. Keywords

Notice the last element, keywords. When the author posts something, he/she
specifies 3-4 keywords relevent to content. My search mechanism will work on
these keywords only. Yes, I can scan the whole document, but that may display
irrelevent results and slow the whole process. Suppose, the article is
something like this:

"I wanted to learn meditation from Gurudev, but after meeting him, I realized
that spiritualism is not limited to yoga. I found the ocean of tantra..."

As you can see, the author is heading towards Tantra. But if a user searches
'meditation' and if my mechanism scans the whole document, this article would
also be listed. I agree that anything related to Guruji is great, but hey, this
whole site is on Guruji and his teachings. So either we must show relevent
things or we don't need a search mechanism at all.

Sincerely,

Ashish Marathe

JAI GURUDEV