[wp-forums] search results

[Scott Merrill]

This may be completely out of anyone's control, but it just occured to 
me that the contents of search results are pretty crappy.  Consider a 
search for "enable sending referrers".  The results look like this:

Support Forums. Search First. Register or login: Username: Password: 
enable sending referrers? Topic started 9 months ago. 9 posts so far. 
Latest reply from btwendel. This topic is not resolved. Hello, ... 
"Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for this feature to work." 
... followed the instructions at 
http://codex.wordpress.org/Enable_Sending_Referrers. and it works now ...

Support Forums. Search First. Register or login: Username: Password: How 
do i enable sending of referrers? Topic started 4 months ago. 19 posts 
so far. Latest reply from pt49. This topic is not resolved ... delete 
blog entries etc, keep getting the 'enable sending of referrers' 
message. Using Microsoft Explorer ... 
http://codex.wordpress.org/Enable_Sending_Referrers. Posted: 2005-04-02 
11 ...

There's a lot of text there that has nothing to do with the search 
query.  Sure, folks who are likely subscribed to this list will say "But 
it shows whether the topic is resolved, to the person searching can zoom 
in on only closed threads!"

To that I say hogwash.  There's nothing to differentiate one result from 
the next for the average user.

Is there anything we can do to improve the search results to help people 
who actually do search?

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