Re: RoadMap for next Beagle releases

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

Daniel Naber wrote:
> In a web context, Lucene is usually used to fetch the first 10 results (if 
> the first page displays 10 results). If the users clicks "next page", the 
> same search is re-executed, the first 10 hits are ignored and the next 10 
> are display. This is because the search itself is often very fast but 
> actually getting the results is slow because it requires one disk access 
> per document. Maybe this would be a useful approach for Beagle, too. 
> Fetching 100 results sounds too much unless they are really immediately 
> displayed.

The main reason why we fetch 100 results is that we display results by 
type and date rather than by relevance.  10 is too few to be really 
useful for most people, and more than 100 is too many.  We could 
possibly make it 50 or 75, but the speed impact is pretty small at that 
point.

Joe