There was as bug where if the input of ResultValuator.normalize() was negative, it was truncated to zero. This meant that "bad" results always rank the same. The penalty factor "overallPart" was moved outside of the function and was re-weighted to accomplish a better normalization.
Some of the weights were also re-adjusted based on what appears to produce better results. Needs evaluation.
This seems like it would make the wikipedia search result worse, but it drastically improves the result quality!
This is because wikipedia has a lot of articles that each talk about a lot of irrelevant concepts, and indexing the entire document means tangentially relevant results tend to displace the most relevant results.
Guava's hashers are a bit allocation hungry, and a big driver of GC churn in the crawler. This switches to the modified Murmur hash function used throughout Marginalia.
Modified site info feed template to secure the description field against injected code. Also adjusted search service by extracting samples within the correct scope and including them in the returned site info. This improves the quality and security of the displayed information.
This change integrates the Feedlot RSS Bot with Marginalia's site info view to offer a preview of the latest updates.
The change introduces a new tiny feature that is a feedlot-client based on Java's HttpClient.
This is for filtering results on how many times the term appears on the domain. The intent is to be beneficial in creating e.g. a domain search feature. It's also very helpful when tracking down spammy domains.
A number of crawl jobs get stuck at about 300 documents, or just under. This seems to be because we fail to increase the crawl limit, which is based on MAX(200, 1.25 x GOOD_URLS) with a 1.5x modifier applied upon a recrawl. GOOD_URLS is based on how many documents successfully process, which is typically fairly small. Switching to KNOWN_URLS should let this grow faster.
The SQL query in the DbCrawlSpecProvider class has been updated; 'GOOD_URLS' has been replaced with 'KNOWN_URLS'. This update ensures the correct data is selected from the DOMAIN_METADATA table.
The floor is also increased to 250 from 200.
Added functionality to remove processes from listing that have not checked in for over a day. A 'removeProcessHeartbeat' function was created to delete the respective entry from the PROCESS_HEARTBEAT table in case heartbeats are absent for more than one day.
