[Sigia-l] Testing a Search installation or implementation

[Avi Rappoport]

Um no.  It's a significant problem.  Once you get beyond the top 1% 
or so, It's not data mining, it's text mining (twisting David Evans's 
concept a bit)

I've worked with a guy from VisualSciences on log reporting, and 
engines like Endeca, FAST Data Search, Google Search Appliance, and 
Ultraseek keep a bunch of detail in logs.  But the best I've been 
able to do so far on trend analysis is an Excel spreadsheet with the 
top 50 queries over time, and cell coloring to indicate concepts. 
I'll post that once I get the customer data washed out.

It's a frustrating problem and hard to create a generalizable solution.

Avi

At 9:13 PM +1300 2/26/04, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
>Hi Avi.
>
>Any reccomendations for tools for analysing log data to see what people
>are searching for?
>
>Even just tools for single-text-box type search would be useful, but if
>there's anything for looking across multiple search parameters of an
>advanced search form that would be very interesting.
>
>And of course there's the task of extracting the search terms in referer
>urls.
>
>Andrew
>
>
>
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