Aurelie Herbelot

I have the same question. Help would be appreciated...

So getting the page titles will come from the new parser (stupidly, lynx doesn't capture the information). But in the meantime I could update the existing pears manually. As a...

No, no! By 'manually', I meant outside of the (future) parser, by wget-ing the urls and automatically grabbing the titles. I just wanted to know whether it was okay to...

Ok. I've updated the pears. At the moment, it doesn't change anything. I'll have a look at the code next.

Yes! That sounds like a great idea!!

I can't comment on caching problems, but I think there is an empirical issue related to user behaviour: how wide is a person's 'search space'? (i.e. are they obsessed with...

How about we only cache a pear on the second visit? Or re-rank the list per number of visits so that we're sure that the most visited ones are always...

Absolutely! For a start, the wikiwoods.dm file should just be loaded once. At the moment, it gets loaded every time findBestPear is called -- and even worse, every time a...

Yes, absolutely!

Same issue with the doc.dists files. See for example http://aurelieherbelot.net/pears-demo/pearone/doc.dists.txt. But I have no idea... can we also convert those to sqlite and have them downloadable from a website?