[Opensim-dev] search

Fri Nov 28 19:04:17 UTC 2014

I had some time yesterday and today to do a bit of maintenance to the 
Metaverse Ink Search engine. Specifically, I made it compatible with 
what the viewers expect a search query to look like. So if you want to 
use it as the search provider for the users of your virtual world, 
simply give the following SearchURL to the viewer as login parameter:

[LoginService]
     ...
     SearchURL            = 
"http://search.metaverseink.com/opensim/results.jsp?"

This will bring up MISearch when users click the "Search" button.

As before, if you want to index the searchable content of your virtual 
world with MISearch, that is done under the DataSnapshot section of the 
configuration, something like this:

[DataSnapshot]
     index_sims = true
     data_exposure = minimum

     ; 1 hour
     default_snapshot_period = 3600

     snapshot_cache_directory = "DataSnapshot"
     data_services="http://metaverseink.com/cgi-bin/register.py"

Note that the data_services variable is capable of taking a 
semi-colon-delimited list of services, so it is possible to index your 
virtual world with several services, e.g. a local search service 
provided by ossearch and global search service like MISearch.

Also note that, for the time being, MISearch is designed for the 
Hypergrid, so if your virtual world is not HG-enabled, it doesn't make 
sense to index it with MISearch. This may change in the future, but 
that's how it works now.

There's 700 sims up&running and registered with MISearch as of this 
morning. The MISearch engine refreshes the data every 6 hours.

On 11/27/2014 1:37 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
> It was down because of an AWS maintenance. It's up again. The index is 
> still not fresh.
>
> On 11/27/2014 1:24 PM, Fly Man wrote:
>> Last I checked, Diva was the maintainer of the MetaVerseInk site and 
>> search engine.
>>
>> So I think it's best to ask her about why the site no longer works
>>
>> 2014-11-27 21:04 GMT+01:00 David Saunders <abitar.com at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:abitar.com at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>     What exactly is needed? Do you have contact with the current
>>     developer of the site? O r have they left the scene and they
>>     should of released the code somewhere :)
>>
>>     I can see open grids and standalones  would love this especially
>>     if it also allows you to see scheduled events also.
>>
>>     I know I seen/heard of other implementations of it but they all
>>     seam to fall aside unless you have a big backer on a long term
>>     grid or two where you can have an project going on with more then
>>     1 person who can keep the project rolling.
>>
>>     Some the private grid might like to use it to some extent too.  
>>     But is it time for us to do this? How well has the online website
>>     trying to unit the economics working (online stores and such)
>>
>>     You will need someone who in it for the long run who can manage
>>     it and acquire hosting for it.  If you have to pay for it, where
>>     are the moneys coming from to provide support for it?  You can
>>     get people to donate we space for it, will the balk if it grows
>>     to to huge sizes?  THere little more then to do then lets do it :)
>>
>>     But I would have to say, the project should be not be dependent
>>     on one person to survive.
>>
>>     Just a thought :)
>>
>>     On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin at ve3syb.ca
>>     <mailto:kevin at ve3syb.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>         On 26/11/2014 8:01 PM, gimisa wrote:
>>
>>               I am happy you reply to this poste. This search
>>             capacity is embeded partly
>>             in opensim core modules and exist since 2008 . Its documented
>>             here http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSimSearch and here
>>             http://metaverseink.com/blog/?p=21.
>>
>>
>>         Thanks for the metaverseink URL. I know about the ossearch
>>         module as I have been maintaining it for a while. I know the
>>         objects database table is being populated. The missing piece
>>         is a web based tool (ie. PHP file) that will let someone
>>         perform a search.
>>
>>         If their is module code or web based code at that metaverse
>>         site I will look at it to see what if it just needs some
>>         minor updates to get it working (again).
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Cheers!
>>
>>         Kevin.
>>
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