Wikidot Search Launched
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After about three months of indexing (because Wikidot is BIG) all content that's hosted on Wikidot, the time came to launch the new search system.

I described the system extensively in blog post titled New search for Wikidot's gonna rock.

The new search system replaced the old Google-powered one.

The main advantages over Google Search Engine that has been used till now are:

  • search in public sites + those you are a member of
  • semantic search: tags, title are more important when searching
  • simple to sophisticated queries
    • "blog site:community" — search for anything with "blog" in it but only on site community.wikidot.com
    • "tags:wikidot site:quake" — search for pages tagged "wikidot" on my site (quake.wikidot.com)
  • poor quality content filtered

Things left to do:

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  • add site preview (thumbnail) like the one on right to the search results
  • explain in simple words the search syntax
  • promote good and/or active sites (give them higher rank)
  • decrease delay from editing to updating search index (should be max 5 minutes)
  • create custom search module searching in a bunch of (related) sites — this would be nice if you keep separate sites for different areas of a project like private site for project members and public one for project users. The search is intelligent enough to filter restricted items from search results if someone is not member of the private site the items come from.

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Gut dżop tim!
SquarkSquark 1236070014|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Good job team :)

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I tested it by chance -it is fast end vrey usefull!
Helmuti_pdorfHelmuti_pdorf 1236092515|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I have not known that there is a new "search:all" page… (I do sometimes check the system:recent-changes) .

But teh answer time is unbelievable fast and the "found" Sites and pages very usefull.

What i have not yet done is to test your description on your blog entry…

Congratulation for a good work delivered!

Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.

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My name is Piotr Gabryjeluk.

I study at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
I work for Wikidot Inc as a web architect, developer and designer.

I have my own About page here.

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