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Wednesday, June 12, 2002

New Feature: Search

Have added a "Search" box -- its there on the Home Page in the right column. It searches the day pages. So, while the search does not take you to exactly the post (you get an idea from the brief description shown on the search results page), it takes you to the day on which the post which contains the phrase(s) occurs. Considering that I don't post more than 5-6 entries in a day, it should be okay for now. We used HTDig to implement the search feature.

One interesting thing I noticed is that htdig highlights the word you've searched for in the brief abstract it gaves for the result, and links the searched word to the actual post (using the permalink). Have no idea how this is happening, but its actually very useful because by clicking on the link in the abstract, one can go directly to the post.

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HTDig indexes your site from a specified page which in the case of "emergic.org" is the home page which has a RECENT ENTRIES section, listing links to posts over the past 1-2 days. Hence, you get search results from posts of the last 1-2 days.

Each link is indexed by a separate thread of the HTDig program, independent of the other indexing threads. When a search is executed, HTDig looks for it in the index results of these individual threads. Hence, you get summaries with the search phrase highlighted(which is normal search engine behaviour), and links directly to the post (due to indexing using results from different threads).

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And oh yeah ... HTDig also records named anchors within pages encountered just before chunks of content indexed.

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Even more than weblogs, perhaps the real innovation in information publishing and access is the RSS newsfeed. What it does is get information to you from the sources you want (your subscriptions). This fundamentally changes the quantum of information that one is able to process. Very much like the way Samachar has changed the news habits of people. Earlier, one used to go to multiple sites and figure out what has been updated. In that mode, one can perhaps go to a few sites. What Samachar does in increase by a factor of 10 the amount of information that can be processed in the same time. [Samachar was launched by my company IndiaWorld in 1997.]

RSS Aggregation takes this one step further. In Samachar, one is limited to the sites chosen by the site managers. in RSS, you can do the same -- it places the power of aggregation in the hands of the reader. In the past few years, most publishers now put out RSS feeds -- consisting of the title of the story, URL, and a brief description. Put on a single page, it is possible to process (scan) dozens of stories very quickly and then decide which to read. All this, by just viewing a single page.

In future, I see RSS Aggregation (with its roots in XML) as being fundamental to the corporate portal (or the digital dashboard, whatever we decide to call it). The feeds will not be limited to just news or blog posts, but could be any "event". The real action will happen when machines (process/applications) start putting out RSS feeds to be processed by other machines. Add to this an Information Bus which can multicast, and a "subscription" model -- wherein a user/process can decide which events/feeds to monitor based on subject, description or source.

To this, one needs to add the weblog to close the feedback loop. When I read the RSS feeds, I can decide to post it (with or without comments) on my personal blog. What I post now also gets published as a RSS feed and enhances the interaction between people.

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- search across the blogs: with the granularity being a blog post
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Rajesh,

Nice post on aggregators (this is a big reason to have the software on the desktop). It is also possible to have most business apps produce an RSS feed on sales, inventory, etc. data.

You should join the K-Logs group on Yahoo (if you haven't already).

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs/

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Despite efforts by many Asian governments to crack down on software piracy, illegal copying of business-related software in the region increased for the second consecutive year in 2001, according to a survey by the Washington industry watchdog group Business Software Alliance.

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