Java blogs?! part 2
Of course, this is insignificant when one considers the utter irrelevance and uselessness of the search facility. Just try searching for anything at all, and chances are you’ll have the same (usually irrelevant) page returned 5-6 times. Setting this aside, the actual blog meta-data is not indexed at all it seems. One would think that searching for ‘rickard’ should bring up his own blog first, but no, he’s nowhere in the list of results. Blog meta-data should be indexed, and given a higher score that general entries. I know javablogs uses Lucene so this is very trivial to implement.
Then of course there’s oscache being applied like a sledgehammer. It’s possible to configure oscache such that frontpage stories dribble in in a timelier manner, rather than the current spurt of 5-6 bursting in at a time.
The biggest problem by far though is that javablogs foolishly assumes that readers are responsible and intelligent. Some examples that this is clearly not the case:
