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04 August 2007

AskMeCha Are there any drupal and/or search engine gurus around?→[More:] Drupal search is funky, and not in the good way, it returns old posts in a weird manner, showing oldest post first in the results. "Update" date is returned in search not "Created" date. WTF? I'm not the only one to have this problem, see the bottom comments in the link - I'll gladly install a standalone search if anyone can reccomend one because my site dies without a decent search engine. And by decent I mean 1) returns all results 2) in "most recently posted first" order 3) Doesn't give a rats ass about how often something was viewed or commented because honestly who cares?

post by: dabitch at: 07:27 | 5 comments

I'm currently re-indexing my site but if you wanna see what the hell I mean, try searching budweiser. As you scan the posted dates you'll see that suddenly results from 2000 show up.

This is probably all due to me importing the entire thing from another database, rather than posting each item in drupal, but I must be able to fix this somehow. I don't know where drupal 'feels' that a node hasn't been posted in drupal (if that makes sense)...

posted by dabitch 04 August | 07:32

Have you looked at Google's 'site search'? I doubt it'll do the "most recently posted first" thing, though.

posted by TheDonF 04 August | 08:54

Hmmm. Well, I'll give it a go. The problem with Google is that I haven't figured out how to allow their spider in on content one must be logged in to view, such as all the directors, actors, creative etc credits on each commercial. People search on agency name and directors names all the time, and google returns nothing that's hidden from the non-logged in user. Shame.

posted by dabitch 04 August | 09:26

Does the "must be logged in to view" thing put some kind of "robots noindex, nofollow" meta tag in? That would stop Google indexing content.

posted by TheDonF 04 August | 09:56

Uhm, no, but google doesn't log in so google can't read the things that is only shown to those who log in. The content is not available to a regular surfer, or bots.

I recall seeing something somewhere on how to create a place for google to "log in" and thus reach premium content for indexing somewhere but I can't for the life of me find now that I've been googling around for ir. Heh.

posted by dabitch 04 August | 10:01

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