[Search-l] Wikia Site Search?

[Jeremie Miller]

Yes definitely!  All the plumbing is being installed to drive exactly  
this type of service, between some coming advances to make Grub work  
smoother and the new more flexible abilities of Nutch to add custom  
fields to the index, it should be possible to pull all this together  
in the coming moons :)

On Aug 12, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Mark (Markie) wrote:

> Ive been thinking and when i was looking at some sites whilst i was  
> searching the internet recently i saw something that in my opinion  
> would be a nice thing to be able to do with
> Wikia Search.  basically a function similar to google site search (http://www.google.com/sitesearch/ 
> ) and would allow webmasters to add a search function from wikia  
> search onto their own websites.  (im sure someone else around has  
> thought of this already)
>
> multiple things would come from this including, more in depth  
> crawling of sites that want to be crawled, helping both improve our  
> index but also giving targeted users better results for the sites  
> which they want.  also the users would/could then be attracted into  
> using wikia search more and contribute increasing the reach etc of  
> the project.  also google charge for their site search service, so i  
> wouldnt have thought it would be much trouble getting people to use  
> it with the right approaches.
>
> it would need a small amount of work to get it set up, with domain  
> only searches and also some kinda interface to enable the easy  
> targeted crawling of certain domains (although i thought this was  
> somewhere in the pipeline already?)
>
> thoughts anyone?
>
> regards
>
> mark