Searching for Authors

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <3A9A384A.3030303@newsisfree.com>, Mike Krus
<mkrus@newsisfree.com> writes
>> We plan to have custom searches on NewsIsFree, but needs some further time
>> to code it (end of march).  A custom search will therefore also act as an
>> own channel. (e.g. a newsfeed, containing everything which matches the
>> keywords "hunter" AND "thompson")
>well, this (when it is coded ;-) will only return articles which has those
>terms in the news title or description. We currently don't handle author
>information (nor do we have plans to in the immediate future).

I'm not sure how this should be properly handled but getting at more
metadata would increase the value of the feed. I think we've got several
options.
- Increase the complexity of RSS to include more metadata on individual
items.
- Go back to the original source and check that, but that then requires
websites to put more of the dublin core into the web page metadata.
- Screen scrape the original web page and try and work it out.
- Build a full text indexing system of the source pages

None of these are great for various reasons.

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