[MTOS-dev] Search (Was: should there be an mtos-general? or (shudder) mtos-help?)

[Byrne Reese]

On this topic very briefly, search is something that is obviously critical.
This is a project that I would love to see come out of the community.

wink wink, nudge nudge :)

Byrne


On 12/13/07 7:09 AM, "Chad Everett" <sixapart.2007 at everitz.com> wrote:

> I'm guessing here, but I'd assume that the search is based on mt-search.cgi or
> some slight variant, and if that's the case, it's only searching entry content
> (perhaps pages) - one of the problems _with_ mt-search.cgi.
> 
> For a full-fledged search offering author, date and topic search, then I think
> it needs to look elsewhere.  Unless Brad and company are busy coding up a
> replacement for mt-search.cgi, it's unlikely that the MT-based forums are
> going to offer that...
> 
> 
> Su wrote: 
>> * The MTCS forum has (so far?) only straight search, limited by:
>>     a. "byrne reese": failed, so doesn't crawl author names
>>     b. "ballpark": failed[1], so doesn't seem to be crawling comments(this
>> can't be right)
>>     c. Seems to be global only, so no filtering for the topic X
>>     d. No limiting by date
>>     e. other less important niggly things Invision allows
> 
> 
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