[wp-forums] search results

[TechGnome]

I've thought the same thing.... but....
And someone correct me if I have it wrong, but I think this is because 
it uses the Google API to do the search. Google simply returns the 
results (presumably via XML) and the search result page simply renders 
what comes back. Which is why you get the "Support Forums. Search First. 
Register or Login: Username: Password: etc." at the begining of each 
forum result. It's what Google sees. Personaly I'd like to see it laid 
out a little differently too, but it isn't easy to build a good search 
engine for a site (especialy when there's different places to search - 
Forums vs Codex) that returns relevant results. Google already can do 
that, and it's easier to hook up.

-tg

Scott Merrill wrote:
> 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?
>