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Better Indexing
=== Better Indexing ===
Searching messages is currently slow and often inaccurate. We Specifically for message bodies we need to work on make sure we have a system clear understanding of what we're indexing messages and contact information so they are easy in order to find againprovide the best search results. See the following mockups.
* Some Possible Ideas[http://clarkbw.net/designs/search/indexing/first%20message.png first message]** Index all new information as it arrives[http://clarkbw.net/designs/search/indexing/second%20message.png second message]** Only Index the new text in an email, ignore quoted text** Index attachments for file name and file type[http://clarkbw.net/designs/search/indexing/third%20message.png third message]
With the first message we likely want to index all the text the author has provided, other than possibly the signature block (this may be handled separately).
 
In the second message you can see that all the reply information has been shaded and we don't want to index that data against this email since the author only wrote the last sentence; the one piece we do want to index.
 
Finally the third message shows multiple depths of replies in the message, yet we still are only interested in creating an index of the senders original text while avoiding indexing the replies against this message. Also the signature block can again be avoided and handled better in another way like an annotation.
== Design and Development of New Search ==
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