New in YaCy 0.50 (Feb 22, 2007)
- Added Media Search
- Added search pages for Images, Audio, Video, and Application search.
- Added media links presentation during snippet fetch; the Image Search presents search results as image thumbnails.
- Better recognition of search hits for text snippet generation.
- Media search results are indexed again after remote search results are collected; only media links are used to update the index.
- Better Result Ranking
- New ranking parameters and appearance attributes are now considered.
- Faster ranking; more references can be ranked and sorted within given search time.
- Ranking Parameters can be handed over to remote peers and are applied there.
- Adopted Detailed Search to new ranking parameters.
- Coefficients from detailed search can be set as default ranking for search page; this replaces the old ranking alternatives.
- Better Crawl Monitoring
- After a crawl start was initialized, the Crawler Monitor is showed.
- The Crawl Monitor now shows all queue elements in one table.
- Monitoring of index size.
- The Crawl Profiles are showed; crawls can be interrupted within the profile table.
- A crawl may now distinguish between text indexing and media link indexing.
- Migration to new Database Structure
- The new Collection Database is now the only database structure that can be used; Assortments are switched off.
- Added functions to migrate Assortment databases and WORDS databases to Collection database.
- Removed all methods to write Assortment data structures.
- Migrated DHT position computation to base64-decoded values; this changes the DHT structure slightly and closes the gaps in the old DHT structure.