sychn Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 The internal search system could cost a lot of resources, hope IPS can integrate the google search into IPS board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Not everyone prefers Google. Don't get me wrong, I prefer Google over other search engines. But not all people like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sychn Posted July 6, 2009 Author Share Posted July 6, 2009 Yep. Any search engine could be all right if it could be used as a solution to reduce the mysql resource cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 There's a good chance we will do this in the future, it was actually planned for 3.0 at one point, but ended up getting cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sychn Posted July 6, 2009 Author Share Posted July 6, 2009 It would be great if we can choose the external search engines to search the forum, thus I don't need to move my website to a dedicated server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceandy Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Good idea ysun Nice to know IPS had planned this to be added, thanks for the info Josh :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 [quote name='ysun' date='06 July 2009 - 04:21 PM' timestamp='1246911706' post='1821263'] It would be great if we can choose the external search engines to search the forum, thus I don't need to move my website to a dedicated server. Would also be nice if there was a starter list of search engines to choose from (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, etc). Personally I'd use Google, but as I said before, not everyone is a Google person. I don't know why, just not everyone is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon D Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Personally I don't seem much point. For example, at least for me, searching the forums content on this website would be pretty much useless. The only posts I really search for are within "private" forums - like all of the IPS Resources category - which Google doesn't index. I really only use Google to search for small words in the Tracker here. I could see it as "nice to have" but really, minus the performance issues, the internal search is quite nice, especially the way it searches content from all of your apps in one place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Maybe have it set to Internal/External/Both. If both, then the member can decide to use the external engine when doing searches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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