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Poster: | TL7 | Date: | Sep 20, 2019 4:44pm |
Forum: | forums | Subject: | Suggestions for making items more searchable. [ + more ] |
It could be data that is too long to put in the main description or properties.
This could e.g. be a very long list of files, possibly thousands and beyond.
As far as I know, the search feature does not search through the *meta.xml and *files.xml.
In addition, many items have many files “zipped” (or whatever other format) into one big archive file.
The user should be encouraged to add a file list next to the big archive file, to make it more searchable.
Here are some more suggestions that were not originally meant to be a part of this post, but came to my mind:
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Ability to search files by minimum/maximum file size.
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For the Wayback Machine, it would be nice to have a text/regular-expressions-powered search feature (optionally case-(in)sensitive).
No need to bother with complicated, advanced search algorithms that also scan pictures for text (e.g. Google, etc.).
But filtering using iterative search would be very useful.
Iterative search is: |grep -i searchterm1 |grep -i searchterm2 (refine in multiple searches.
I do not intend to sound needy. Many users asked for a Google-like search feature with complicated algorithms, neural networks, machine learning, etc.
But text/regular-expression-powered search is simple.
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Another suggestion is showing the user for why a page has been excluded from the Wayback Machine, so that the user does comprehend the reasons instead of getting frustrated about it.
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Please also consider fixing the rejection of archival of any YouTube website with URL parameters (e.g. &feature=youtu.be).
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It would be good, if the web uploader supported selecting folders without drag/drop.
Drag/drop is not practical on touch-only devices such as mobile phones.
I hope my suggestions are helpful.
This post was modified by TL7 on 2019-09-20 23:44:10