I don't think that the tag thing would be redundant. It would be more
secure. It would allow the builder to select what gets searched for
instead of a random search uncovering some secret hideaway that was
meant for only the builder and a few friends.
It would be more secure and people would feel safer if the engine could
not search for anything that was not tagged.
[View Quote]Roland Vilett wrote:
>
> Not a bad idea...except the whole "tag" thing would probably just be
> redundant. Why not just create a search engine that searched based on the
> contents of all "description" fields? All you'd have to do is put the
> description "Jdal's place" on an object, and then a search for "Jdal" would
> turn it up.
>
> A search engine that allowed you to search the entire world, better yet the
> entire AW universe, would be a very powerful tool. Protag proposed such a
> thing long ago. It would not be extremely difficult to create a bot based
> on the AW client/server communication code that roamed around the entire AW
> universe (except for closed worlds of course) looking for objects with
> "Description" fields on them and building up an index. Then you could go to
> a web page, type in what to search for, maybe allow ways to restrict your
> search (e.g. look in one world, or several worlds, or the whole universe)
> and the output would be a bunch of AW teleport URLs to all matching objects
> found. Pretty simple!
>
> Conceivably you could also search by owner name or number to help people
> locate their lost property, a frequent problem in AlphaWorld...
>
> This whole idea ties in somewhat with another ongoing discussion about the
> "world list" and how it's getting too long and whether or not it should be
> broken down into categories. A common complaint is that it's getting
> difficult to know which world are about what, and finding worlds about a
> particular theme is becoming impossible. It seems like the above search
> engine idea might go part of the way towards addressing these problems.
> Instead of hunting around through a list of hundreds or thousands of worlds,
> just type in what you are looking for into the world search engine. I know
> not everyone is a big fan of search engines, but again if they are done well
> and their coverage is complete they can be very powerful tools.
>
> -Roland
>
> jdal wrote in message <35411fea.0 at sundev>...
> tag
> them
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