state of search peter buch – csc epa web workgroup training conference february 14, 2008 potomac...

State of SearchState of Search

Peter Buch – CSCEPA Web Workgroup Training ConferenceFebruary 14, 2008 Potomac Yard Facility (Crystal City), Arlington, VA

Last time we talked we were Last time we talked we were going to…going to…

Add a spell checker Add auto-suggest (auto-complete) Continue to assign documents to

folders

SpellcheckerSpellchecker

Deployed in December Jazzy – open source Java spellchecker Dictionary customized for EPA (ETSS,

OCEPA, GIS, Web Taxonomy) Continue to mine misspellings for new

words Ann-Marie Bramer decides what goes in

FoldersFolders

We have > more than 200,000 subject assignments, and 999 type assignments

Do you see folders – do you use them? See how your documents are assigned

at SearchCentral->Utilities->Folders by TSSMS

Feedback helps a lot… if we have misclassified your docs, please let us know.

What’s coming up?What’s coming up?

New release of Northern Light New UI with new features Autosuggest

Northern Light Release 3.1Northern Light Release 3.1

Multiple collections – › Different parts of EPA website on different

indexing schedules› Break out different collection (e.g. Fed

Register) for searching Better ranking through expressions

UI RedesignUI Redesign

Folders, lot of new options in left sidebar (you just lost some real estate)

Searches only web pages (EPA), still searches all documents (This Area)

Mini-advanced search in sidebar Google, USA.gov search in sidebar.

AutosuggestAutosuggest

Made feature implement-able without changes to content pages

Populated from same sources as dictionary, plus popular queries -

Adds 140K to page weight for 8K suggestions – but it’s cached …?

Ajax (client-server) approach …?

On the horizonOn the horizon

WebCMS interface to search Preparing to de-comission WEBI Weighting of non-WEBI metadata Site maps Stop indexing PowerPoint Redesign of EBT (Explore by Topics)

interface with search

IssuesIssues

Ranking› Problems with ranking of 3+ word queries› Problems ranking at all

Indexing› Missing pages› Slow updates

Contact usContact us

Visit Search Central http://nlquery.epa.gov

Email me buch.peter@epa.gov