The Fish-Search is an appropriate tool
for expanding a hotlist.
The search, integrated into Tübingen Mosaic, can start from the
hotlist, loaded as a local file.
To use the server-based search, the hotlist must be installed on the
same server as the search engine.
The fish-search can use an external program to determine the relevance
of a document. The engine passes the document to the external program
and expects a number as return value. The external program may be a
pipeline of programs.
Example of external search:
! grep 'World Wide Web' | wc -l
This example returns documents containing the string "World Wide Web",
and uses the number of lines containing that string as relevance measure.
When the fish-search is combined with a proxy cache, the searched
documents are immediately cached.
A subsequent search will go much faster because it will traverse a number
of documents already in the cache.
