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General => Forum News => Topic started by: John Raabe on December 10, 2010, 04:51:03 PM

Title: New Search
Post by: John Raabe on December 10, 2010, 04:51:03 PM
I've changed the search engine to Google Custom Search and it is now doing a better job of returning posts inside the current forum and some pages that were "printed" from earlier posts from previous years.

(https://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af219/countryplans/search-new.jpg)

I think most folks will find it easier to use than the one built into the forum software.

Let me know what you think.
Title: Re: New Search
Post by: glenn kangiser on December 10, 2010, 09:00:23 PM
I searched humphrey intending to locate info on the group we just hosted at the cabin.  The new search did not return a link, but the old harder to use on returned one only of many.

Seems we may need to search more than one way.
Title: Re: New Search
Post by: John Raabe on December 11, 2010, 08:06:33 PM
Yes, the spidering of the forum does not seem to happen often. Most of the posts that are found are older.

I did a search on "Dogtrot at Hightop" - Redoverfarm's thread started in Nov. '07 - Google found lots of that conversation. Also "Okanogan 14x24 by a lurker" was found.

I searched for "I found this walking my land..is it an old well?" and that was found with the latest post Dec 5th. These are being shown in "printed" text format - no pics. It isn't a direct link to the current forum page. I think I can tell Google not to read these files by editing my robots.txt file. But I haven't yet done that.

There is a discussion (several in fact) of this issue on the SMF support site. I spent some time there last night. Some forum webmasters have had luck with installing a mod and then setting up an xlm sitemap that is used to provide Google some structure. I might try to see if I can get some help with that. We have a customized template that would need to be custom tweaked.

John
Title: Re: New Search
Post by: MountainDon on December 11, 2010, 08:21:39 PM
We could collaborate on that. I've kept a list of the tweaks made thus far
Title: Re: New Search
Post by: glenn kangiser on December 14, 2010, 06:27:18 PM
Tried it again and looks like the spiders have found more of the links.  Got better results this time with about 3 or 4 coming up.
Title: Re: New Search
Post by: glenn kangiser on December 14, 2010, 06:30:25 PM
Yes --- I think it is working better - found this...

(https://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q75/djmillerbucket/StPatricksDay/DontheLepracaun-C-250x346.jpg)
Title: Re: New Search
Post by: John Raabe on February 13, 2011, 06:17:55 PM
Is Photobucket getting flakey on us? I think mine are still working fine. Are there posts of mine where they have disappeared I wonder.
Title: Re: New Search
Post by: MountainDon on February 13, 2011, 06:38:13 PM
I've noticed missing images in assorted places, but none of mine seem to be AWOL. I have a couple of different photobucket accounts. One is almost full, that is why I have now have two. I believe some folks have deleted images in their albums to make room for more. In the early days of photobucket there was no limit on the free accounts; now there is. Anyone can have more than one free photobucket account as long as they use a different email to sign up.


Except I did delete the "leprechaun" above