Why does the forum search go through the entire website!?
There is so much garbage on the actual site that I want to bypass and just find some posts
If I want to find
It brings up a ton of unusable stuff
If the admins at MODx could add inurl:/forums/ to all the search strings im sure it would help a lot of people ex.
This way it will actually search the forums with the forum search
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MODX Staff
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Improvement made that I hope makes things a bit more clear. Great suggestion antirem; thank you!
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
Follow me on Twitter at @rthrash or catch my occasional unofficial thoughts at thrash.me
ganeshXL: heh.. didnt notice that... thanks for pointing that out... im an idiot... but the search up there does make it seem like its the one your supposed to use
rthrash: thank you very much!
Good change, although I still think the SMF search is quite weak. I’m often unable to find posts that I know are there even using advanced search. I don’t know anything about the SMF search algorithm or if it’s tweakable or not. I think it never searches within the body of a message and the relevance calculation usually seems pretty far off base compared to, say, a regular Google search.
The Google site search from a forum page always seems to give me unstyled output with links that lead to more unstyled output with no standard forum options (e.g. no way to reply).
Quote from: ganeshXL at Nov 03, 2008, 05:37 PM
yeah, but removing the "printpage" or "wap2" part from the query string is quite easy (i.e. get to the regular web layout page)
Another great tip. Thanks!
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MODX Staff
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The print page stuff drives me crazy too ... any suggestions on a fix?
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
Follow me on Twitter at @rthrash or catch my occasional unofficial thoughts at thrash.me
For Linux do the same in usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins
Thx Ganesh!
Thats cool modification to the search!
Thanks guys.
Have you thought of incorporating something like sphinx?
http://www.sphinxsearch.com/
