Welcome to Raycone WeboardoSeek documentation

WeboardoSeek is a search engine for files on your disks. If you have used any Internet search engines, you'll become familiar with WeboardoSeek very soon.

Short - just usage

Enter searched word(s). If the "found" file MUST contain a word, prefix the word with '+'. If it MUST NOT contain a word prefix it with '-'. <ENTER> Double-click to open.
Example: "+alpha beta -gama" will find a file that contains at least one "alpha", may or may not contain "beta" and does not contain "gama"

Longer - if you want to use the full power of WeboardoSeek

You can search for an expression in HTML files (html, htm) or source code files (cpp, h, etc.). WeboardoSeek uses BeOS's file system query functions to obtain files of those types. You can search all yours disks (with Be file system), "/boot" disk or limit the results to a directory. Even if you select to search only a directory the whole disk (containing the directory) will be searched for files of the selected type - BeOS's file system query functions work on the whole disk. However, only files in the selected directory will be searched for the expression(s) you have specified.

You can specify which words the "found" file MUST contain ('+' prefix before the word - these will be called "AND words" later in the text), MUST NOT contain ('-' prefix before the word - "NOT words" in the text later) or MAY contain (no prefix - "OR words" in the text later).

If you tell WeboardoSeek to search HTML files, it tries to find the best one(s) which give(s) you the most information about the topic you are searching for. Standard HTML search engine algorithms are used for it: Every occurance of the searched word has different priority according to where it is. If the file, for instance, contains an OR word in the title it gets 1*TITLEpoints points. However, if it contains an AND word it gets 3*"position"points. If the file contains an NOT word, it is rejected immediately. The majority of Internet search engines do not have such a large scale of different priorities or don't use them at all. Here is the list of different word priorities WeboardoSeek recognises with their points (how many points the file gets if it contains an OR word in ...):

  1. File name - 30
  2. Title - 15
  3. Word in the Keywords section (<META> tag) - 12
  4. H1 heading - 9
  5. H2 heading - 8
  6. H3 heading - 7
  7. H4 heading - 5
  8. H5 heading - 2
  9. H6 heading - 1
  10. Word outside all mentioned above - 1
If the word is an AND word it gets 3 times as many as the points above.

The score for each file is counted up and if it is more than 0, the file's path and score is shown in the results box. The file with the highest score comes first. The disk is searched and every time WeboardoSeek finds a file containing an AND word or an OR word it inserts it into the list and continues searching further files. WeboardoSeek spawns another thread - Sorter - which sorts the found files according to their score while the search engine searches the disk. The Sorter is the reason why, if you run Pulse, it shows you "processor working at full speed" all the time. Don't worry about it. The Sorter is a very low priority thread - it doesn't eat much of your processor's performance cake :-)O)) and it shows you the best result in the first position almost all the time.

However, WeboardoSeek is not a human being - it can just try to find what you are looking for. The choice is up to you. You can double-click the file you like and it opens in NetPositive (if you are searching for HTML files) or in BeIDE (if you are searching for source code files).

We hope this program will help you find what you are looking for. Enjoy!


WeboardoSeek is FREEWARE, so you can use it and copy it for anyone as often as you want. If you like it or have any contributions, just mail us. Visit WeboardoSeek online.

Disclaimer

BECAUSE THIS PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, WE PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT WILL RAYCONE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS) THIS PROGRAM, EVEN IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.

Documentation created in Weboardo.
WeboardoSeek 1.00, Copyright 1999 Raycone
Last updated on 1999/03/24