tedster - 6:14 am on Feb 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks Shaun. Welcome to the forum - it's good to have input from a search professional.

The client in this case is a not-for-profit who will have a volunteer monitoring search results, so this aspect will be handled...and we definitely will have a solution that generates the kinds of reports you mention. It's helpful to have you list the three types; I would probably have overlooked the "poor" results category.

I've been thinking that one of the roughest areas in the search results that I've seen is the description of each result. So many times they are nearly inscrutable.

I'm wondering about the idea of having each page author create a short abstract of their material, then and have the search function return that abstract instead of kepinging a large meta tag on page or extracting Google-like snippets. We could easily add this into the content management workflow.

Is this approach something that is pre-packaged into products? Does it help?