Weighting different html text nodes - h1,h2 etc..

[Joel Halbert-2]

Hi, Would I be correct in thinking that Nutch, when indexing an html
document, does not weight the different text nodes (h1, h2, anchor etc)
differently - instead it just lumps together all text as one? (this is
the impression I get from looking at
org.apache.nutch.parse.html.HtmlParser)

Rgs,
Joel

[Ken Krugler]

>Hi, Would I be correct in thinking that Nutch, when indexing an html
>document, does not weight the different text nodes (h1, h2, anchor etc)
>differently - instead it just lumps together all text as one? (this is
>the impression I get from looking at
>org.apache.nutch.parse.html.HtmlParser)

Yes, AFAIK there's no special weighting given to text pulled from the
body of the HTML.

I believe Nutch does give higher weight to the anchor text found for
links that point to the page, which is a key factor in generating
better search results.

-- Ken
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Ken Krugler
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