Search Engine?

Search Engine on Webmasterworld.com

[The_Warden]

How come we do not have a search engine that would allow one to search through the message forms? Without a search engine it makes it difficult to search for discussions presently going on and in the past.

Is thera any plans to have an search engine??

[Knowles]

Site Search [searchengineworld.com]
It takes you to searchengineworld.com but it searches webmasterworld.com. Is this what your looking for?

[The_Warden]

Knowles
Well not exactly, something that is more specific to searching in the message discussions. Have options to search specific topics, categories, users posts, subjects, etc. Site search does more of a site over the entire site I believe.

I guess I'm looking for more advanced features.

[Knowles]

Ahhh okies, I think Brett is working on that I remember reading it somewhere.

[mack]

Is the se in WebmasterWorld bretts work?

[oilman]

you can search by forum if you include it in the search phrase:

some search term /forum3/

The above search will look for 'some search term' and only return results from the Google forum.

[The_Warden]

oilman
Well that is helpfuly but still could use the other advanced features. Only problem with this feature is how is a user to know this? Have I just missed this feature.

[paynt]

Actually tips about using the search feature would be helpful and I could add this link to the welcome letter.

[The_Warden]

Yes I think that would be helpful but at the same time this isn't exactly the easist way to do such searching no? The user has to know what the path is different for each forum. Just adding a few more pulldowns would allow for more advanced features/searching.

I guess I'm to reliant on search engines.

[Marcia]

Warden, it's not unlikely that there's a balance between resources and functionality. While searching individual forums would be handy, so many topics are posted across a few, not just one, that it's my guess that topical probably covers most of the search needs. I'd like search within a given limited time frame, but I remember about when certain things were posted. I don't know how many would recollect timing that much or even find it as useful as I would.

[rcjordan]

WebmasterWorld is written to be very spider-friendly (when/where we want it to be). Because the onsite search is limited, I regularly use advanced search in Fast [alltheweb.com] or Google to search the threads.

[The_Warden]

Yes I guess just having a pulldown to search specific Forums and a text input to search messages based on user name would be enough.

Yes Google works great but I find usually that a site specific search engine ususally works better and makes more sense to have.

[Brett_Tabke]

Yes AllTheWeb works great. They have about 26,000 pages indexed from here. Googles not too bad either at 3900.

As mentioned, there is an update to the se in the coding stages...