[OWW-Discuss] Try out the search box on mw11. It has been googlized.

[Bill Flanagan]

It's a bit weird since the pages point to openwetware pages rather than to
the mw11 pages. You need to use the back button to return to mw11. This
won't be the case when it gets installed in OWW. Try to search from here:


*http://openwetware.org/mw11/index.php/Main_Page
*

I'm trying to allow this search to continue to coexist with the current MW
search. Once you use this a bit, you have to ask, 'why bother!' when you see
the results. Keeping search working in the private wikis is my biggest
concern.

Personally, I like it. I'd like to hear what you folks think of it before
moving it into OWW.

Questions:

1. Are you seeing ads displayed with the results? I've registered a custom
search that will block ads since we're a nonprofit educational institution.

2. What about the way the results are displayed? Any comments?

3. We can add other sites to the search. I don't know how we would do this
yet but blogs and mailing list archives are on the table.

4. Has anyone seen other sites using Google's search that have any details
worth looking into?

5. I think we may be able to come up with a special protocol search as well
as other site-subset searches or even searches that span OWW and a set of
other sites.

6. I need to make sure this search is done in a way that does not interfere
with searches of private wikis. Since Google can't see them, they will have
to continue to rely upon the built-in search.

7. We could restrict the search to specific namespaces or title prefixes
within OWW.  This is a good way to exclude some of the extraneous content
that might be picked up along the way. This is similar to the sub-searches
we use for Lab Notebooks or other page ranges.


Signed,

The Googlizer
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