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E.S comments on "Latex Search Engine for MO?" (13094)

2011-02-05T01:45:39-08:00

I made a request(sent an email) to the effect that they consider us a future project target when they expand their content base/set.

Scott Morrison comments on "Latex Search Engine for MO?" (13091)

2011-02-04T21:15:22-08:00

The about page for latexsearch says

Currently, latexsearch.com uses the content available from Springer's corpus of literature, but future development plans include expanding this content set to include open-access databases and preprint servers such as ArXiV. Anyone who would like to assist us in expanding the content base of latexsearch.com is encouraged to contact us.

Anyone is very welcome to discuss incorporating the MathOverflow corpus. It's all available in a convenient format in the public database dumps, and the license is certainly permissive enough for them to index MO this way.

On the other hand, it's Springer...

E.S comments on "Latex Search Engine for MO?" (13088)

2011-02-04T14:31:03-08:00

Thanks for your response. I did well with finding fragments. But, occasionally, searches for odd formulas I thought might have been posted previously returned unrelated stuff. I wished to see something like: http://www.latexsearch.com/.

As to the LaTex I arbitrarily took to demonstrate what I meant, I took it from here: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/47870/does-a-triangulated-category-that-possesses-a-subcategory-b-of-generators-with

Scott Morrison comments on "Latex Search Engine for MO?" (13087)

2011-02-04T13:38:50-08:00

Unfortunately, the usual response applies.

We have no ability to modify the software at present, beyond reporting critical bugs to the StackExchange folks. If we ever transition to StackExchange 2.0, we will gain lots of new software features (but not, at present, such searching), and at least some ability to petition the developers for particular new features. In the 2.0 model, however, software features which are not useful to all the StackExchange sites are very unlikely to be implemented. There's a dim possibility that at some point we'll have our own software --- I've continued intermittent work on alpha.mathoverflow.net, although there's currently no publicly accessible instance, and perhaps in a few months I'll have something that others can usefully contribute to.

That said, have you tried google? I didn't find anything for the particular LaTeX fragment you mentioned (did you actually get that from an existing post?), but otherwise it seems to pretty successfully find LaTeX fragments.

E.S comments on "Latex Search Engine for MO?" (13085)

2011-02-04T09:36:06-08:00

I recently heard that there are Latex-search enabled paper archives. MO being a very Latex-laden site, I think this feature should be integrated on MO so that searches become more targeted and mathematical. Most of our language being formulas, it at least makes sense to have it. For instance, if I wanted to find a question that contains $C\cong K^b(B)$ , it is clear that I am in the middle of nowhere!