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Old 12-04-2003, 03:31 AM   #1
rafarspd
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Question Displayed Results formatting etc

Hi everyone

'Snippets' displays found search words in [meta name='KEYWORDS'], also the found search words on the page text.

'Summary' displays what is in [meta name='DESCRIPTION'] then starts with the text on the page, listing it from the body of the page until it reaches the display total set in [define('SUMMARY_DISPLAY_LENGTH',150);].

If a search word is in [meta name='KEYWORDS'] but not within the text of a page then that page will still be listed showing the snippet from the KEYWORDS. I am getting pages returned with two instances of the search word but no instances in the content and showing a relevance of 81.65 % when infact the relevance is 0%.

Is it possible to have the search words 'snippets' displayed without the [meta name='KEYWORDS'].
(Perhaps I should put the [meta name='KEYWORDS'] in <!-- phpdigInclude --><!-- phpdigExclude --> tags) or should I make sure that [meta name='KEYWORDS'] only has words that are contained in the text of the document.

If you wish to use PhpDig as a page content search engine then you realy only need the text contained in the viewable page to be indexed.

On summary, it looks like I am asking two things.
1. Is it possible to have the [meta name='DESCRIPTION'] displayed without the page text.
2. Can a page be ignored if there are no instances of the search word on the page even if the word appears in [meta name='KEYWORDS']. (I suppose this will affect the ranking percentage, perhaps [meta name='KEYWORDS'] should be ignored).

Unfortunately I also have another problem. As an example, look at 'http://www.rafars.org/information/council.html'. I can enter search words and get a returned page up to 'GENERAL SECTRETARY' but 'TECHNICAL OFFICER' or any below this appear not to return a search result.

Perhaps I expect to much!
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