Metacat

Comparing Metacat with other search engines, there is a major
difference in the metacat web interface when compared to others. We
dont divide the result into blocks. So any online search will show x
number of results at a time. Metacat on the other hand shows all
results in one go. I am not sure how to fix this yet but I think we
will improve on time in three ways: database processing time, network
time and rendering of data in the browser. KNB currently has 1600
documents+ and a % search sends back a webpage which is 1.45 MB in
size. Hence even if we think of broadband, that is a lot of data being
sent back. Same goes for rendering of 1600 documents as compared to
10/20 documents. I am not sure though how hard this will be to implement