[Catalog-sig] Cheese shop: search
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Fri Oct 20 18:15:46 CEST 2006
Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 01:51, Ian Bicking wrote:
>> Can we please get the search back?
>
> If someone writes it, sure. The old search was far less useful that the Google
> search is now.
I thought my email outlined why the Google search is completely useless.
To summarize: it's useless. The old search was a little awkward, but
it worked. Simply putting it back as it was would be a step forward.
And actually the only improvement I'd like to see in the old search is a
way to search all fields at once, and then a search form on the front
page -- but even without these the search is functional. Well, if we
wanted to be really fancy we'd want a full text indexer in the database,
which probably isn't installed, and then create a field that contained
the full text of each entry by simply concatenating items, and probably
giving weight to some metadata by doing something scrappy like:
full_text = title + title + keywords + keywords + topics + topics +
description
Otherwise if we are sticking with Google, cheese shop at least needs to
tell google not to index the browse pages. And probably needs to give
google a sitemap so it will index all the packages more prompty, as it's
not indexing nearly often enough right now.
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