Site Search Improvement and Tips (OpenInsight 32-Bit)
At 14 OCT 2010 12:00:53PM Jared Bratu wrote:
Searching the revelation.com site using the search field at the top of the screen would sometimes return a large number of documents with the same date. The search result page was displaying the modified date instead of the creation date. Over the past year improvements to the database changed modified dates which made it difficult to gauge the age of a result. This is no longer the case, the search result page will always show the date the match was created.
Since we are talking about the site search this is an excellent time to share several other useful search examples.
Only show documents with "o4w" created after a certain date:
o4w AND _CreationDate ] 1/1/2010
Only show documents with "o4w" containing "menu colors" or newsletter:
o4w AND ("menu colors" OR newsletter)
Same search, except weight the search results to emphasize "newsletter" over "menu colors":
o4w AND (TERMWEIGHT 10 "menu colors" OR TERMWEIGHT 90 newsletter)
Same as previous search but only show recent results:
o4w AND (TERMWEIGHT 10 "menu colors" OR TERMWEIGHT 90 newsletter) AND _CreationDate ] 1/1/2010
The revelation.com site contains a lot of historical information and we are looking for ways to improve the quality of site search results. The tentative plan is to try and incorporate the advanced search features into a weighted search so you can find the most helpful results without special syntax.