On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Mark Fuller-ACUS10 wrote:

> (I assume from this response Swish-E doesn't display context?).

	Correct.

> I don't know what sort of overhead would be involved.

	Copying the first 50-100 words of every file into the index.

> I believe GLIMPSE shows context, but not sure how the index size compares to
> Swish-E, but they don't seem ridiculous in size.  If such were possible in
> Swish-E it would be nice to have it as a configurable option at least

	But it works well only for HTML (assuming you parse out any
	JavaScript) and text files; my application indexes all sorts of
	files, so it's of less use.

	Also note that there is a difference between "context" and
	"synopsis": the latter is what most search engines do, i.e.,
	give you the first 50-100 words of a file; the former gives you
	50-100 words *around* the hit word.  The former is harder to do.

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