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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Answers to Recently Asked Questions about UNIX.COM Post 303030217 by wisecracker on Thursday 7th of February 2019 07:31:55 AM
Old 02-07-2019
Hi Neo...

Quote:
All over the world there is a decline in the interest in forums due to the fact that it is easier to simply find the solution to our problems using Google. How are we going to address this?

This is an interesting question. When we do a Google search we generally end up at forums and similar technical sites because our questions, or a similar questions, are likely to have been asked and answered before. Hence, forums are very critical knowledge-building communities because without these sites, their would be little to find when we do a Google search. Google is not the "knowledge creator", Google is the "knowledge indexer". Of course, this site was much more active in the early days of the Internet before there were so many great knowledge repositories for UNIX and Linux, including this one. UNIX.COM was one of the first moderated forums to focus on a high signal-to-noise ratio related to UNIX and Linux technologies. We are constantly working to make the site easier to use and more fun for all our valuable members.
I can unequivocally say with experience that UNIX.COM does come up a lot when I am searching GOOGLE for results to some of my esoteric ideas posted on here.
It is always about how you search. After years of use I still haven't got the hang of that major detail yet as it is always down to how deeply one understands the subject one is searching for.
RudiC has recently posted some hum[-]dinger solutions to bash string handling and I would never know how to search for those with my level of shell scripting knowledge, BUT, and a big BUT, these rarities are now in the internet ether because of just that, they ARE so rare and few people other than the _hardened_ pros' would know about them.

Stack Overflow comes up a lot but this site certainly sees its fair percentage of GOOGLE hits, heck I even posted a thread about this some time ago.
Also judging by the number of newcomers, almost daily, then they must get the UNIX.COM badge from somewhere, and that somewhere is a search engine and more than likely the GOOGLE one.


My 5 pennoth.
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UDM_ADD_SEARCH_LIMIT(3) 						 1						   UDM_ADD_SEARCH_LIMIT(3)

udm_add_search_limit - Add various search limits

SYNOPSIS
bool udm_add_search_limit (resource $agent, int $var, string $val) DESCRIPTION
udm_add_search_limit(3) adds search restrictions. PARAMETERS
o $agent - A link to Agent, received after call to udm_alloc_agent(3). o $var - Defines the parameter, indicating limits. Possible $var values: o UDM_LIMIT_URL - defines document URL limitations to limit the search through subsection of the database. It supports SQL % and _ LIKE wildcards, where % matches any number of characters, even zero characters, and _ matches exactly one character. E.g. http://www.example.___/catalog may stand for http://www.example.com/catalog and http://www.example.net/catalog. o UDM_LIMIT_TAG - defines site TAG limitations. In indexer-conf you can assign specific TAGs to various sites and parts of a site. Tags in mnoGoSearch 3.1.x are lines, that may contain metasymbols % and _. Metasymbols allow searching among groups of tags. E.g. there are links with tags ABCD and ABCE, and search restriction is by ABC_ - the search will be made among both of the tags. o UDM_LIMIT_LANG - defines document language limitations. o UDM_LIMIT_CAT - defines document category limitations. Categories are similar to tag feature, but nested. So you can have one category inside another and so on. You have to use two characters for each level. Use a hex number going from 0-F or a 36 base number going from 0-Z. Therefore a top-level category like 'Auto' would be 01. If it has a subcategory like 'Ford', then it would be 01 (the parent category) and then 'Ford' which we will give 01. Put those together and you get 0101. If 'Auto' had another subcategory named 'VW', then it's id would be 01 because it belongs to the 'Ford' category and then 02 because it's the next category. So it's id would be 0102. If VW had a sub category called 'Engine' then it's id would start at 01 again and it would get the 'VW' id 02 and 'Auto' id of 01, making it 010201. If you want to search for sites under that category then you pass it cat=010201 in the URL. o UDM_LIMIT_DATE - defines limitation by date the document was modified. Format of parameter value: a string with first character < or >, then with no space - date in unixtime format, for example: Example #1 <?php udm_add_search_limit($udm, UDM_LIMIT_DATE, "&lt;908012006"); ?> If > character is used, then the search will be restricted to those documents having a modification date greater than entered, if <, then smaller. o $val - Defines the value of the current parameter. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. PHP Documentation Group UDM_ADD_SEARCH_LIMIT(3)
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