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Any unwanted snippet/excerpt/context-of-match lines processed seems like a waste of resources of various kinds. For indexed searches, the only significant //server processing// is the snippet, so offering "no snippets" is a win-win. Times when snippets are unwanted (for other types of resource savings) include: - "researchers" just want a count of certain pages - "offline processors" just want a list of titles, (AWB + database, text processing of search results page text, etc.) - when more results per page are wanted - when //only relevant info// is wanted, i.e. when clean results are wanted - to hide errors when matching is incorrect - to make consistent look and feel to the report when some regexp terms show snippets and some don't - for slow or low bandwidth terminals - for printouts of search results to use as checklists Later maybe evolve "excerpt lines" from zero to some number. How about //titlesonly:// or #0 as the query term to signal "no snippets"?

Any unwanted snippet/excerpt/context-of-match lines processed seems like a waste of resources of various kinds. For indexed searches, the only significant //server processing// is the snippet, so offering "no snippets" is a win-win. Times when snippets are unwanted (for other types of resource savings) include: - "researchers" just want a count of certain pages - "offline processors" just want a list of titles, (AWB + database, text processing of search results page text, etc.) - when more results per page are wanted - when //only relevant info// is wanted, i.e. when clean results are wanted - to hide errors when matching is incorrect - to make consistent look and feel to the report when some regexp terms show snippets and some don't - for slow or low bandwidth terminals - for printouts of search results to use as checklists Later maybe evolve "excerpt lines" from zero to some number. How about //titlesonly:// or #0 as the query term to signal "no snippets"? Removing or not removing document size and document date info from the search results page doesn't seem nearly as relevant.

Any unwanted snippet/excerpt/context-of-match lines processed seems like a waste of resources of various kinds. For indexed searches, the only significant //server processing// is the snippet, so offering "no snippets" is a win-win. Times when snippets are unwanted (for other types of resource savings) include: - "researchers" just want a count of certain pages - "offline processors" just want a list of titles, (AWB + database, text processing of search results page text, etc.) - when more results per page are wanted - when //only relevant info// is wanted, i.e. when clean results are wanted - to hide errors when matching is incorrect - to make consistent look and feel to the report when some regexp terms show snippets and some don't - for slow or low bandwidth terminals - for printouts of search results to use as checklists Later maybe evolve "excerpt lines" from zero to some number. How about //titlesonly:// or #0 as the query term to signal "no snippets"? Removing or not removing document size and document date info from the search results page doesn't seem nearly as relevant.