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Development => Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback => Official Feature Votes => Topic started by: KnacK on February 16, 2009, 07:04:34 PM

Title: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: KnacK on February 16, 2009, 07:04:34 PM

As the standard forum search really doesn't lend itself to being user friendly some times, I suggest coding in a Google Web site search box that only searches the dp forums:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ CLick on FREE as in b33r

I've looked at SMF's web site and they don't have a mod to include this in with the code.

Title: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: lilb990 on February 17, 2009, 07:23:14 PM

That would be a good feature :) +1 as soon as the vote comes out!

Title: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: Zorchenhimer on April 06, 2009, 01:29:39 AM

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Title: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: jitspoe on April 14, 2009, 06:45:21 PM

I'm not going to support google after the crap they pulled with the adwords.  Is the built in search that bad?  I use it like 10 times a day...

Title: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: KnacK on April 14, 2009, 07:02:01 PM

Its faster.

And I now prefer to use it other than the built-in forum search.

site:dplogin.com/forum <enter search criteria here> works like a charm.

Title: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: nub on April 14, 2009, 07:17:25 PM

I know on another forum website it didn't work to well.
People preferred the built in search because they couldn't find what they were looking for.

Title: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: T3RR0R15T on April 15, 2009, 09:35:32 AM

Maybe Yahoo?

http://search.yahoo.com/info/addsearchdetail

Title: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: jitspoe on April 15, 2009, 10:44:42 AM

The problem with some external search is that if you search for something like "autococker", it's going to show every thread, since it's below everybody's name.  Likewise, if you search for a person's name, it will show all of the threads they posted in - every page of every thread they posted in, actually - not just the posts that contained their name.

Anyway, here's the vote for it: http://dplogin.com/dplogin/featurevote/feature.php?id=10200

Title: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Google Website Search Box
Post by: T3RR0R15T on April 15, 2009, 10:55:45 AM

Quote from: jitspoe on April 14, 2009, 06:45:21 PM

Is the built in search that bad?

It is much better as an external, but sometimes it needs around 5 minutes for a search result...