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Bug 19401 - Upgrade site search
Summary: Upgrade site search
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: webplatform.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: team-webplatform-admin list
QA Contact: public-webplatform-bugs list
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 19351 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-10-09 17:39 UTC by Scott Rowe
Modified: 2013-03-14 14:05 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments
JavaScript snippet for adding search (598 bytes, text/plain)
2012-12-12 20:59 UTC, Dan Wendorf 		Details
Sample for custom search box (893 bytes, text/html)
2012-12-12 21:00 UTC, Dan Wendorf 		Details

Description Scott Rowe 2012-10-09 17:39:37 UTC 
Search with "WebSocket"
Notice that results 2 - 4 are duplicates, as are results 5 - 7
It's much worse under "Page text matches"
Comment 1 James Phillpotts 2012-10-17 10:01:57 UTC 
Related to this are the comments on the forums here: http://talk.webplatform.org/forums/index.php/2063/can-search-accuracy-be-improved
Comment 2 Jonathan Garbee 2012-10-31 21:29:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19351 ***
Comment 3 Alexis Deveria 2012-12-01 00:47:00 UTC 
I do not believe this bug is a duplicate of bug 19351, that one refers to the snippet text content that appears in search results, this one refers to the fact that many duplicate results appear for a search.
Comment 4 Jonathan Garbee 2012-12-01 09:17:51 UTC 
They both would be fixed by an upgrade to the search function.  I am referencing as See Also between the two.

I think the key to solving this one is having the search read the output of the page source compared to the direct source.
Comment 5 Dan Wendorf 2012-12-12 20:59:59 UTC 
Created attachment 1279 [details]
JavaScript snippet for adding search
Comment 6 Dan Wendorf 2012-12-12 21:00:49 UTC 
Created attachment 1280 [details]
Sample for custom search box

Copy the behavior of the #searchform form to post to the search page.
Comment 7 Dan Wendorf 2012-12-12 21:14:10 UTC 
This solution in my previous two attachments uses the Google Custom Search API to peform the search in-page. The default code snippet includes its own search box, but to have a site-wide search box, replace the current form behavior with that of #searchform in the custom search box sample.

Next steps: This code still needs to be integrated in the actual search page and styles, and the site-wide search box needs to be replaced.

The code snippets in the attachments use a sample Google Custom Search account I have created, but a new account can easily be created at http://www.google.com/cse/manage/create
Comment 8 Dan Wendorf 2012-12-12 22:01:57 UTC 
After a further discussion about implementation, we found a pre-made extension for MediaWiki at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Custom_Search_Engine that may be a simpler way to integrate Custom Search Engine.
Comment 9 Jonathan Garbee 2012-12-13 19:49:40 UTC 
*** Bug 19351 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Jonathan Garbee 2012-12-13 19:51:18 UTC 
I just made this bug report the central location for site search issues.

Also, there are a handful of search extensions that we could use (including one for Google Site Search). http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Search_extensions has a list of them. We should review a few of them once we have the codez online and see which would be best to use.
Comment 11 Jonathan Garbee 2013-03-14 14:05:32 UTC 
New location: http://project.webplatform.org/search/issues/6