[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.1
Timo B. Hübel
we are pleased to announce the first beta release of Hayoo!, a Haskell API
search engine providing advanced features like suggestions, find-as-you-type,
fuzzy queries and much more.
Visit Hayoo! here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo
Please bear in mind that this is still a beta release and we are continuously
working on further improvements. Our plans for the future include:
- Covering all documentation available at Hackage.
- Compatibility with non-JavaScript enabled browsers.
- Providing a web interface where people can point Hayoo! to an URI linking
to Haddock documentation which will be automatically included in Hayoo!.
Hayoo! was developed as a use-case for the Holumbus framework, which aims to
help at the creation of very flexible and highly specialized search engines.
Although Holumbus is still under heavy development and we have no official
release yet, some informations and a Darcs repository are available at the
Holumbus homepage: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de
Any suggestions and feedback is highly welcomed.
Cheers,
Timo B. Hübel & Sebastian M. Schlatt
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Richard Kelsall
> Hello,
>
> we are pleased to announce the first beta release of Hayoo!, a Haskell API
> search engine providing advanced features like suggestions, find-as-you-type,
> fuzzy queries and much more.
>
> Visit Hayoo! here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo
>
> Please bear in mind that this is still a beta release and we are continuously
> working on further improvements. Our plans for the future include:
>
> - Covering all documentation available at Hackage.
> - Compatibility with non-JavaScript enabled browsers.
Yes please.
> - Providing a web interface where people can point Hayoo! to an URI linking
> to Haddock documentation which will be automatically included in Hayoo!.
>
> Hayoo! was developed as a use-case for the Holumbus framework, which aims to
> help at the creation of very flexible and highly specialized search engines.
>
> Although Holumbus is still under heavy development and we have no official
> release yet, some informations and a Darcs repository are available at the
> Holumbus homepage: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de
>
> Any suggestions and feedback is highly welcomed.
>
Really like it. Looks very smart. Thank you!
Little detail : After visiting a page that appears in the search results
then doing a back button the search I did is no longer there. (On my
eccentric Firefox setup anyway.)
Timo B. Hübel
> Little detail : After visiting a page that appears in the search results
> then doing a back button the search I did is no longer there. (On my
> eccentric Firefox setup anyway.)
Hm, that's strange. I know about this problem when using Konqueror, but my
Firefox (Linux, 2.0.0.13) keeps the results even after visiting the
documentation and hitting the back button.
Which Firefox version do you use?
Felipe Lessa
> Hm, that's strange. I know about this problem when using Konqueror, but my
> Firefox (Linux, 2.0.0.13) keeps the results even after visiting the
> documentation and hitting the back button.
My Epiphany works fine. Anyway, I can't use back and forward to
navigate between my searches (i.e. while on Hayoo!, pressing Back
takes me to the page I was before going to Hayoo! instead of the page
inside Hayoo! I was before reaching that point). It would be very nice
if it was a history-friendly site.
Keep up the good work! =)
Thanks,
--
Felipe.
Richard Kelsall
> On Sunday 06 April 2008 16:38:03 Richard Kelsall wrote:
>> Little detail : After visiting a page that appears in the search results
>> then doing a back button the search I did is no longer there. (On my
>> eccentric Firefox setup anyway.)
>
> Hm, that's strange. I know about this problem when using Konqueror, but my
> Firefox (Linux, 2.0.0.13) keeps the results even after visiting the
> documentation and hitting the back button.
>
> Which Firefox version do you use?
>
I'm still on the old Firefox 1.5.0.5 :
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060902
Firefox/1.5.0.5
I expect most people have upgraded to by now so I wouldn't worry about
it if it works in the new version. I just tried again switching off my
Adblock and switching on Java and Javascript, but couldn't seem to get
anything except a blank search page after clicking the back button.
Maybe just my strange setup.
Richard.
Don Stewart
> Hello,
>
> we are pleased to announce the first beta release of Hayoo!, a Haskell API
> search engine providing advanced features like suggestions, find-as-you-type,
> fuzzy queries and much more.
>
> Visit Hayoo! here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo
>
> Please bear in mind that this is still a beta release and we are continuously
> working on further improvements. Our plans for the future include:
>
> - Covering all documentation available at Hackage.
> - Compatibility with non-JavaScript enabled browsers.
> - Providing a web interface where people can point Hayoo! to an URI linking
> to Haddock documentation which will be automatically included in Hayoo!.
>
> Hayoo! was developed as a use-case for the Holumbus framework, which aims to
> help at the creation of very flexible and highly specialized search engines.
>
> Although Holumbus is still under heavy development and we have no official
> release yet, some informations and a Darcs repository are available at the
> Holumbus homepage: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de
>
> Any suggestions and feedback is highly welcomed.
>
Very very nice! And with HPC coverage details!
http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/coverage/hpc_index.html
Excellent work guys.
-- Don
Timo B. Hübel
> Overall feedback: Cool! So far, I like Hayoo!, and I'm therefore
> interested in Holumbus. Is there some technical overview available?
Currently, only what you can find on http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de but we will
try to extend the site in the near future.
> transcript of my short test of hayoo, including nitty-picky feedback:
> [...]
Thanks for this extensive feedback, some of these are known issues we're
already working on which will be fixed soon. The others are on my TODO list
now :)
Regards,
Timo
Max Bolingbroke
> Hello,
>
> we are pleased to announce the first beta release of Hayoo!, a Haskell API
> search engine providing advanced features like suggestions, find-as-you-type,
> fuzzy queries and much more.
Very nice!
I'm not sure if this is documented or not, but for those interested in
creating a search template for Firefox, Quicksilver and the like, it
is possible to use a URL such as this to enter a search term:
http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html?query=catmaybes
Cheers,
Max
Don Stewart
> Hello,
>
> we are pleased to announce the first beta release of Hayoo!, a Haskell API
> search engine providing advanced features like suggestions, find-as-you-type,
> fuzzy queries and much more.
>
> Visit Hayoo! here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo
>
> Please bear in mind that this is still a beta release and we are continuously
> working on further improvements. Our plans for the future include:
>
> - Covering all documentation available at Hackage.
> - Compatibility with non-JavaScript enabled browsers.
> - Providing a web interface where people can point Hayoo! to an URI linking
> to Haddock documentation which will be automatically included in Hayoo!.
>
> Hayoo! was developed as a use-case for the Holumbus framework, which aims to
> help at the creation of very flexible and highly specialized search engines.
>
> Although Holumbus is still under heavy development and we have no official
> release yet, some informations and a Darcs repository are available at the
> Holumbus homepage: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de
Also, I see you have the QuickCheck and cabal badges, but your HPC use
also qualifies for:
http://projects.unsafeperformio.com/hpc/hpcbadge.jpg
I'd argue :)
Timo B. Hübel
> creating a search template for Firefox, Quicksilver and the like, it
> is possible to use a URL such as this to enter a search term:
>
> http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html?query=catmaybes
Well, it is not really documented, but if you visit the Hayoo! page using
Firefox, it is possible to add Hayoo! as search engine to the small search
box in the upper right corner using the drop down menu.
Timo
Uwe Schmidt
lieber Herr Schlatt,
ich habe gerade das Announcement von Holumbus
in haskell.org gelesen und natürlich auch Holumbus ausprobiert.
RICHTIG GUT!
Viele Gruesse
Uwe Schmidt
Philip Müller
> Hello,
>
> we are pleased to announce the first beta release of Hayoo!, a Haskell
> API
> search engine providing advanced features like suggestions,
> find-as-you-type,
> fuzzy queries and much more.
>
> Visit Hayoo! here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo
Hi,
first of all, I'm very pleased to hear that such a nice project comes
from FH Wedel.
However, I have found two bugs, or annoyances:
Using Opera 9.27 or Internet Explorer 7,
- Search results vanish when using the "back" button
- the "Source" and ghc docs links always take me to the top of the pages,
it seems the anchors don't work.
In Firefox 2.0.0.13 these problems do not appear.
> Any suggestions and feedback is highly welcomed.
Keep up the good work!
Regards
Philip,
who regrets that the FH Wedel TInf course of studies doesn't include the
Haskell lecture.
Uwe Schmidt
> Lieber Herr Hübel,
> lieber Herr Schlatt,
sorry for spamming haskell-cafe
Uwe
Timo B. Hübel
> Using Opera 9.27 or Internet Explorer 7,
> - Search results vanish when using the "back" button
Yes, that is a known problem. Although I have no good idea how to solve this
while keeping the AJAX stuff (that is, find as you type).
> - the "Source" and ghc docs links always take me to the top of the pages,
> it seems the anchors don't work.
Hm, there is nothing special about these. Plain <a> tags with an anchor, no
fancy JavaScript stuff. Perhaps these browsers are generally irritated by
inserting something into the DOM using JavaScript ...
> In Firefox 2.0.0.13 these problems do not appear.
Yes, and FF is what we recommend right now, as everything "just works". But
I'll try to improve browser compatibility in future releases.
> Keep up the good work!
We'll try ;)
Timo
Timo B. Hübel
thanks for all the feedback so far! We have just deployed some minor updates
for Hayoo!, mainly improving the ranking mechanism. It should now prefer
modules from the Prelude as well as functions exactly matching the query
terms.
Additionally, we have started a blog about Hayoo! and Holumbus development
which can be found here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/blog
Have fun using Hayoo!
Timo
Steve Lihn
I am using IE6. The "Powered by" bar at the bottom does not reposition as I
scroll down. So there is a small portion on the page always masked by the
"Powered by" bar.
Nice work. Great google-like speed...
Steve