PHPkitchen » search http://phpkitchen.com PHP and Web Development News and Tips Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:59:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Site search from the guys who should know better http://phpkitchen.com/2008/03/site-search-from-the-guys-who-should-know-better/ http://phpkitchen.com/2008/03/site-search-from-the-guys-who-should-know-better/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:46:35 +0000 Demian Turner http://localhost/wordpress/?p=782 Quite a nice snippet from the php_london ML by Michael Stillwell

Site searches are really really bad. Even from organisations that should know how to do search. I really don’t understand why.

Try, e.g.

http://search.oracle.com/search/search?start=1&nodeid=&fid=&keyword=oracle+client+download&group=All

(Business Intelligence Beans Installation Guide and Release Notes as first result)

versus

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:oracle.com+oracle+client+download

Or

http://www.mysql.com/search/?q=query+browser+download&charset=&x=0&y=0
(Greek as first result)

versus

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mysql.com+query+browser+download

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