FlyingMonkey Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 Is there an improved search for our osC stores? enabling search description returns too many unrelevant results and doesn't sort by relavance. Without it, the search doesn't return enough. A vast improvement would be to simply return listings in the title first. Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first.
Guest Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 Have you tried a Google search of the site? If it returns relevant results (and providing the big G has indexed all the product pages) the search box is simple to code. Try a Google search like this: site:yourdomain.com keyword(s)
FlyingMonkey Posted January 2, 2005 Author Posted January 2, 2005 good call, except is that legal for use with a commercial site? at times the google index is out of date, and the appearance is a bit tacky. is there a way to do it within the site? Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first.
Guest Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 The terms of service do not distinguish between commercial domains and non-profit so I would ASSume it to be safe. Also, you can customize the results so it looks more like the store and even have the store logo. Read theFree Search FAQ for more info on customization. The only downside is that a store owner would have to register a free account to customize. As a side note, Google reserves the right to serve ads so they are making money from serving the site specific results. It's in their financial interest to offer the free service to commercial domains since it will usually have more ads than a non-profit domain. Bobby
ryanf Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 Im pretty sure there is a contrib to install that will search the product descriptions also. I think I put it in an older site of mine without much trouble at all. Look in the contribs. If I was crafty, this would be a funny signature.
Jack_mcs Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 Calvin - see my signature for a site search contribution. Also, using google is fine and does not violate any rules ( see here). However your pages have to be indexed by google or it will never see them. Jack Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons
FlyingMonkey Posted January 2, 2005 Author Posted January 2, 2005 Calvin - see my signature for a site search contribution. Also, using google is fine and does not violate any rules ( see here). However your pages have to be indexed by google or it will never see them. Jack <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I read up on your site search contribution... and it says, "This contribution will search all of the files in the includes/languages/english directory." Does it search through products as well? i'd like customers to be able to find products more efficently. Ryan: i've already tried the search in description mods, as i've said they return too many unrelavent choices. Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first.
boxtel Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 I read up on your site search contribution... and it says, "This contribution will search all of the files in the includes/languages/english directory." Does it search through products as well? i'd like customers to be able to find products more efficently. Ryan: i've already tried the search in description mods, as i've said they return too many unrelavent choices. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I changed mine to search the header tags instead of the description. Treasurer MFC
FlyingMonkey Posted January 2, 2005 Author Posted January 2, 2005 icic, how does it benfit to search the header tags? Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first.
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