AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[Randy Brukardt]

The AdaIC is proud to announce the availability of the Ada Sites search
engine.

The AdaIC search engine provides a way to search many Ada-related web
sites in a single search. Unlike general search engines, the Ada Sites
search engine only searches Ada sites listed by the AdaIC. Since only
Ada-related sites are included, you won't get piles of unrelated pages,
and you won't have to limit your search so much that you can't find the
information you need.

The engine allows the inclusion or exclusion of site categories, along
with phrase searches, excluded words, and more. When you click the
"Search" button, the engine will search more than 25,000 pages of Ada
information, presenting the most relevant pages along with short
abstracts. You can directly access the search engine at
http://www.adaic.com/site/wide-search.html.

The AdaIC search engine is created with a set of Ada applications, all
written in Ada 95. For more on the search engine and how to use it, see
http://www.adaic.com/site/search-info.html.

If you know of Ada-related web sites that are not listed in
http://www.adaic.com/links/index.html, please write us at
webmaster@adaic.com with the URL and a short description. We'll add it
to the search engine on the next update cycle. Comments on the search
engine are also welcome.

        Randy Brukardt
        Technical Webmaster, Adaic.org/Adaic.com

Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[Randy Brukardt]

Somewhat less interesting, but still useful, is the individual search
engines (several of which people have been stumbling across and using
for the last month). All of these are included in the board search, but
it can be useful to look only in a particular site or document.

The entire AdaIC site (http://www.adaic.com/site/search.html);
The AdaIC archives (http://archive.adaic.com/search.html);
Ada 95 Quality and Style
(http://www.adaic.com/docs/95style/html/search.html);
The Ada 95 Reference Manual
(http://www.adaic.com/standards/95lrm/html/RM-SRCH.html);
and the Annotated Ada Reference Manual
(http://www.adaic.com/standards/95aarm/html/AA-SRCH.html).

Also, if you are the webmaster of one of the sites indexed, we have a
report of all of the links reached. Most of the sites we indexed had a
number of broken links. Just send me a note to request it.

          Randy.

Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[Chad R. Meiners]

Randy,

Are you planning on making the search engine open source to faculiate
research and improvement based on Authorithy ranking systems or Latent
Semantic Indexing?

-Chad R. Meiners

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:v7058jmhc7d239@corp.supernews.com...
> The AdaIC is proud to announce the availability of the Ada Sites search
> engine.

Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[Randy Brukardt]

Chad R. Meiners wrote in message ...
>Randy,
>
>Are you planning on making the search engine open source to faculiate
>research and improvement based on Authorithy ranking systems or Latent
>Semantic Indexing?


Not until it gets some documentation, gets tested on other compilers,
and has stuff specific to my servers pruned out.

A more general issue is that all of the parts were built on top of
Claw.Sockets. It's mildly unfortunate that Claw.Sockets is part of Claw,
as it drags in the GUI (even if you don't want it), and it isn't very
Windows-specific (the handful of Window-specific things could be
eliminated or moved relatively easily). We've been thinking about
breaking it out into a hierarchy of its own, which would allow it to be
ported to other systems. We'll probably rethink the licensing of
everything if/when that is done.

               Randy.

Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[tmoran]

>Are you planning on making the search engine open source to faculiate
  An early version of the web spider part is at
www.adapower.com/os/finder.html
The writeup there perhaps makes it sound like it only runs on adapower,
but of course that's not the case.

Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[tmoran]

> The AdaIC search engine is created with a set of Ada applications, all
> written in Ada 95. For more on the search engine and how to use it, see
> http://www.adaic.com/site/search-info.html.

It's interesting to compare this to the recent:

> *** {03.10.020} Cross - DeleGate robots.txt overflow
>
> DeleGate versions prior to 8.5.0 do not properly handle large robot.txt
> files, thereby allowing a malicious Web site to execute arbitrary
> code on the DeleGate system.
>
> This vulnerability is confirmed and fixed in version 8.5.0.
>
> Source: SecurityFocus Bugtraq
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-03/0160.html

The early indexer didn't handle giant robots.txt files gracefully either.
It just stopped and logged the problem however: no "arbitrary code
execution" since it was written in Ada and no checks were suppressed.

Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[Jeffrey Carter]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> 
> The early indexer didn't handle giant robots.txt files gracefully either.
> It just stopped and logged the problem however: no "arbitrary code
> execution" since it was written in Ada and no checks were suppressed.

Is there anyway to diseminate this experience/comparison out to the 
wider net developer community. Sounds like a great plug for Ada; it's a 
pity to limit it to those who don't need convincing.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"That was the most fun I've ever had without laughing."
Annie Hall

Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[Christoph Grein]

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> The AdaIC is proud to announce the availability of the Ada Sites search
> engine.

I tried to use the search engine, but the <button>search the net</> did
not appear, only its text, so I couldn't execute the search. I'm using
Netscape 4.6 on Win98. Is this a Netscape problem?
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Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[Gautier]

Christoph Grein:

> I tried to use the search engine, but the <button>search the net</> did
> not appear, only its text, so I couldn't execute the search. I'm using
> Netscape 4.6 on Win98. Is this a Netscape problem?

Could be. It works with 4.8. I can be a bug in the HTML code anyway...
--> ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/
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Re: AdaIC opens the Ada Sites search engine

[Randy Brukardt]

Christoph Grein <"christoph grein @eurocopter.de> grein @eurocopter.de>>
wrote in message <3E716664.9CE1F710@eurocopter.de>...
>Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> The AdaIC is proud to announce the availability of the Ada Sites
search
>> engine.
>
>I tried to use the search engine, but the <button>search the net</> did
>not appear, only its text, so I couldn't execute the search. I'm using
>Netscape 4.6 on Win98. Is this a Netscape problem?


The command used to create the button is a standard HTML 4.01 one. But
that means that browsers older than 1997 probably don't handle it. I
thought I'd tested the page on our ancient Netscape, but its clear that
I didn't.

Anyway, I'm going to change the buttons on all of the pages today. I've
already changed the one on the www.adaic.com/site/wide-search.html page.
This one seems to work on older Netscapes. Sorry about that.

             Randy.