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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:09:45 -0000
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Subject: [Nutch Wiki] Update of "Features" by MarkyGoldstein

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The following page has been changed by MarkyGoldstein:
http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/Features

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  (Please reformat this text and divide into feature lists, questions and questions & answers). 
  
- ==Features==
+ == Features ==
  
- ==Questions and Answers==
+ == Questions and Answers ==
- 
- ==Questions==
- 
  
   *What kind of searches does Nutch support? (quoted, nested, truncation, wildcarding [and where], Boolean),
      * "...." (phrase search?), + (what is this for?), - (negation) and fieldname:term.  No "AND" or "OR".  The and-logic is implied.
+ 
   *Is stemming an option?
-     * According to the [http://www.lucenebook.com/ Lucene in Action] book: "Nutch does not use stemming or term aliasing of any kind.  Search engines have not historically done much stemming, but it is a question that comes up regularly." -- page 329
+     * According to the [http://www.lucenebook.com/ Lucene in Action] book: "Nutch does not use stemming or term aliasing of any kind.  Search engines have not historically done much 
+ stemming, but it is a question that comes up regularly." -- page 329
+ 
   *What kind of stemming does Nutch use? (and can you add exceptions/changes?)
      * See previous answer :)
+ 
   *Does Nutch support Boolean operators? (can you use Google-like plus or minus or are you stuck with 1990s terms?)
      * No
-  *Does Nutch support weighted field searching, synonym support?
-  *What kinds of indexes does Nutch build? (multi-format indexing, incremental indexing, spell-check support, thesauri support, fielded searching,  rank-by-reputation?)
  
   *How does the search engine handle punctuation and special characters? (and what's configurable?)
      * They are treated like a space.
+ 
   *Which document formats are supported?
    * Guessing from the names of the available parser plugins, this is probably it.  However, only the plain text and HTML are enabled by default.  Edit conf/nutch-site.xml and change the value of plugin.includes property to include the plugins for the document types that you want Nutch to handle:
     * Plain Text (plugin: parse-text)
@@ -38, +38 @@

       title, artist, album, comments, etc. The useful information needed to search mp3s)
     * ZIP (?) This seems to expand the zip of plain text files and return the concatenated text. (parse-zip)
  
+ 
+ == Questions without Answers ==
+ 
+  *Does Nutch support weighted field searching, synonym support?
+ 
+  *What kinds of indexes does Nutch build? (multi-format indexing, incremental indexing, spell-check support, thesauri support, fielded searching,  rank-by-reputation?)
+ 
   *What post-coordination options are available? (hey Karen, what does this mean?)
  
   *How easy is Nutch to configure?
+ 
   *How transparent is its configuration to a working organization: does it require geeky command line stuff, or can a knowledgable manager enter a web or software interface to view or modify settings?
  
   * How are results sorted?
+ 
   * Does Nutch support deduping?
+ 
   * Can one tinker with relevance algoritms?
+ 
   * Are there ranking overrides?