Date:         Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:07:03 -0400
Reply-To:     Charles Patridge <Charles_S_Patridge@PRODIGY.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Charles Patridge <Charles_S_Patridge@PRODIGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: SUGI: documentation, help, index
Comments: To: Ron Fehd <rjf2@CDC.GOV>

Dear Ron and Others,

Good Luck on indexing!  I have received numerous
inquiries/criticisms/suggestions/etc etc about making SCONSIG.com more
effective by building "slick" methods to make the site more "searchable"
and easier to find what people are looking for - and I have not as yet
found the ideal method/service/feature to answer everyone's needs UNLESS I
am willing to spend ALOT of money to professional INDEX my site and its
3000 plus pages.  And even at that, I am not guaranteed 100% successful
searchable methodolgy for every person in the SAS world.  One viewpoint in
doing so, is the ability to look at the world from everyone's viewpoint and
point of reference (not an easy task)!

The last time I looked, the cost for me to index every page would run about
$1500 per year which is beyond my personal pocketbook.

As an example of what/how people have searched my site this past month (May
2003), I extracted all the phrases people used and thought you might see
what you could be up against when indexing written material:

HTH,
Charles Patridge
web: http://www.sconsig.com
email: charles_s_patridge@prodigy.net

Here are the results - and this only includes 1000 pages (I have more than
3000 plus) of my site as it is FREE for 1st 1000 pages - so, I have
filtered out certain sections of SCONSIG.com and specific file types to
make the searches as revelant as possible.  So, if you do a search it is
possible the material is available but my search engine was restricted or
not able to go beyond the 1000 page limit to find what you might be looking
for.

May, 2003
197 total searches, 126 phrases
line 1 = Count (how many times people used this phrase)
line 2 = Phrase (what people actually typed to search for )
line 3 = Results Count (the number of hits found with the url listed)

3
answers for sas questions
370

3
moving average
34

2
best pictures
75

2
dates prior gregorian calendar
62

2
excel
52

2
greeting
2

2
infile statement
144

2
itrm
1

2
itsv
3

2
karsten self
32

2
lunar
21

2
papers
21

2
part time
83

2
parttime
0

2
pharmaceutical
51

2
pharmaceutical md statistic
72

2
pipe
4

2
read data
336

2
resumes
49

2
salaries
56

2
salaries
56

2
sas questions and answers
331

2
sasvlfs
0

2
statistician ca
66

2
tip 00121
309

1
1
291

1
203
42

1
address line
113

1
advace programming certification
72

1
animation
0

1
anova
5

1
answers
26

1
best photos
68

1
bus error
41

1
buss error
112

1
charles patridge
141

1
checkder
1

1
chekder
0

1
class variable
168

1
clinical data
320

1
clinical trials training
62

1
cluster analysis
73

1
clustered data
320

1
coding
88

1
comma delimiting a string
347

1
comma sep
25

1
compare
21

1
contract
47

1
creasy
66

1
csv files
167

1
data scrubbing
320

1
datasets
127

1
dorfman
25

1
downloads
31

1
droping observations from clustered data
343

1
enterprise guide
48

1
enterprise minir
41

1
error
39

1
error handling
74

1
file compare
177

1
fuzzy match
47

1
fuzzy merging
48

1
gmm using sas
365

1
graph confidence limits
70

1
help
76

1
hermansen
4

1
import
11

1
input
145

1
interview
22

1
interview questions
70

1
jansen
2

1
jcl
25

1
jernigan
0

1
jobs
73

1
lag
8

1
largefile
0

1
liability
1

1
listing members in a sas library
400

1
lookabaugh
1

1
louisville ky
7

1
macro
194

1
mddb
5

1
mike davis
24

1
nobs
33

1
observations datasset
100

1
ods
17

1
oracle extraxtion
48

1
pad
4

1
papers sugi28
21

1
post questions
88

1
proc datasets
231

1
programmers
62

1
questions
63

1
rand
3

1
remove variable labels
180

1
sas
321

1
sas af
321

1
sas answers
325

1
sas screening questions
332

1
saszaf
0

1
security
22

1
sort
69

1
spdf
0

1
spds
1

1
spedis
1

1
spss
36

1
stamford
10

1
statisician
1

1
statistician
43

1
summary
58

1
syslin
0

1
text file
181

1
ti00122
0

1
tip 203
315

1
tip00080
2

1
tip203
0

1
traffic lighting
7

1
transfer data from sas to excel
391

1
transporting
10

1
trilegiant
4

1
twins
3

1
ultra
4

1
variance inflation factor
42

1
view
44

1
writing macros
200

1
x command
113