Mailing List Archive: Meta Tag Question

Hello. We currently have an older version of Lucene running on our intranet,
which I did not install (I'm new to Lucene), and I've been testing it out. I
noticed that it appears not to be using meta tag information in ranking or
in displaying. I was wondering if the newer version will allow this sort of
configuration (to use meta tag information for ranking and possibly
displaying). I understand that Lucene primarily uses a full-text search and
the title may be included in the search, but I have not found any
information in the FAQ's or elsewhere on the site as to whether or not
Lucene can be configured to include meta tags in its ranking and/or summary
display. If anyone knows offhand whether this is will be possible, I would
appreciate your input as we are trying to evaluate the new version of Lucene
as we are considering using it on our external web site.
Thanks much,
Michelle

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Michelle Michael (michelle.michael@twc.state.tx.us) writes:

> Hello. We currently have an older version of Lucene running on our
> intranet, which I did not install (I'm new to Lucene), and I've been
> testing it out.
>
> I noticed that it appears not to be using meta tag information in
> ranking or in displaying. I was wondering if the newer version will
> allow this sort of configuration (to use meta tag information for
> ranking and possibly displaying).

Lucene is a search engine API, not a search engine application.
Lucene provides all of the tools that a java programmer needs to build
a full-text search index. It does not include a finished application
for end-user use.

If your application doesn't include meta tags, it's because
whoever developed it didn't put in code to parse the meta tags and
store them in the lucene index. To make it do so, get any basically
competent java programmer to extend your application by adding code to
parse the meta tags from the presumably HTML documents and store them
as an extra field in the Lucene documents your application generates.
It should not be a big deal, in terms of development, but it is not
the sort of thing you can do by just flipping a configuration switch.

Steven J. Owens
puff@darksleep.com

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