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State of SearchState of Search
Peter Buch – CSCEPA Web Workgroup Training ConferenceFebruary 14, 2008 Potomac Yard Facility (Crystal City), Arlington, VA
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Last time we talked we were Last time we talked we were going to…going to…
Add a spell checker Add auto-suggest (auto-complete) Continue to assign documents to
folders
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SpellcheckerSpellchecker
Deployed in December Jazzy – open source Java spellchecker Dictionary customized for EPA (ETSS,
OCEPA, GIS, Web Taxonomy) Continue to mine misspellings for new
words Ann-Marie Bramer decides what goes in
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FoldersFolders
We have > more than 200,000 subject assignments, and 999 type assignments
Do you see folders – do you use them? See how your documents are assigned
at SearchCentral->Utilities->Folders by TSSMS
Feedback helps a lot… if we have misclassified your docs, please let us know.
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What’s coming up?What’s coming up?
New release of Northern Light New UI with new features Autosuggest
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Northern Light Release 3.1Northern Light Release 3.1
Multiple collections – › Different parts of EPA website on different
indexing schedules› Break out different collection (e.g. Fed
Register) for searching Better ranking through expressions
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UI RedesignUI Redesign
Folders, lot of new options in left sidebar (you just lost some real estate)
Searches only web pages (EPA), still searches all documents (This Area)
Mini-advanced search in sidebar Google, USA.gov search in sidebar.
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AutosuggestAutosuggest
Made feature implement-able without changes to content pages
Populated from same sources as dictionary, plus popular queries -
Adds 140K to page weight for 8K suggestions – but it’s cached …?
Ajax (client-server) approach …?
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On the horizonOn the horizon
WebCMS interface to search Preparing to de-comission WEBI Weighting of non-WEBI metadata Site maps Stop indexing PowerPoint Redesign of EBT (Explore by Topics)
interface with search
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IssuesIssues
Ranking› Problems with ranking of 3+ word queries› Problems ranking at all
Indexing› Missing pages› Slow updates