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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
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
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
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.
What’s coming up?What’s coming up?
New release of Northern Light New UI with new features Autosuggest
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
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.
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 …?
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
IssuesIssues
Ranking› Problems with ranking of 3+ word queries› Problems ranking at all
Indexing› Missing pages› Slow updates
