Finally, our new world-search is online!
Much faster and more precise than ever. We also implemented a a few new features:
- trek* finds all words starting with 'trek', for example trekker and treky. a* will not work though, as this would match too many words.
- star +trek -voyager will find names containing 'trek' but not 'voyager'. It may also contain 'star', in which case it will be listed first.
- lurker~ does a fuzzy search, which means it will find everything that sounds link 'lurker', for example 'worker'. Warning: fuzzy search is slow.
Not only the filename is indexed, but also the description, tags, path and user. So if you see a filename which does not include your search term, check the other fields too.
Filenames in camel-case are split: you will find WaterPlant.jpg when searching for 'water' or 'plant'.
Please note: The new search is only for for the world area (not groups or friends).
Sound good :-) Will the new search come to private and shared files as well?
ReplyDeleteGreat!
ReplyDeleteSpecial syntax like "folder:searchterm" or "file:searchterm" would be great to limit results to foldernames or filenames!
Thanks!
Private + Shared is a problem because Caleido/LaCie don't have access to _any_ information there, so users have to build their own indices of files etc.
ReplyDeleteMaybe behind the scenes Wuala could create a daily/weekly/hourly/instantly(?) updated "Index file" (with the encrypted metadata for the whole group/user) for each group/user so it doesn't have to iterate through the whole files there but just download 1 file for each entity?
We are thinking about enabling the new search for private and group files as well, but unfortunately this is much more complicated than the public search. As Sukrim pointed out, we have no idea what files you have stored, so we cannot index them on our side. Especially for groups, where many users can make changes, its difficult to keep the index consistent for all users. But we are working on it...
ReplyDeleteThe special syntax to limit the search to certain fields will be added in the next release.