Philooo Posted September 12 Posted September 12 Members of my community complain about the difficulty in finding information with the search integrated into Invision They tell me that they find what they are looking for more easily by asking for their keywords in Google and adding the name of my site ... Apart from the Elastic Search option offered in the Admin, is it not possible to integrate a Google search as proposed by Google in its Adsense offer for example?
Marc Posted September 12 Posted September 12 This is not something that is a default option, no. At present, your option would be to switch to using elasticsearch
WebCMS Posted September 14 Posted September 14 On 9/12/2024 at 7:29 AM, Philooo said: Members of my community complain about the difficulty in finding information with the search integrated into Invision They tell me that they find what they are looking for more easily by asking for their keywords in Google and adding the name of my site ... Apart from the Elastic Search option offered in the Admin, is it not possible to integrate a Google search as proposed by Google in its Adsense offer for example? That is using Google's infra to perform search which uses a plethora of features from software to hardware to caching to faceting to document search to photo search to translation to AI search... IC uses MySQL search and even obeys MySQL's FT_MIN_WORD_LENGTH default of 3 chars (search terms shorter than 3 chars are not searched). A poor-man's search functionality was suggested here to use Porter's PHP Stemming class (includes plurals and other variations) along with a Thesaurus dB for synonyms in PHP itself to offer powerfull full-text search for free (most sites don't need Elasticsearch) -
WebCMS Posted September 14 Posted September 14 (edited) You can integrate Google Search on your site - Edited September 14 by WebCMS
salvi Posted December 8 Posted December 8 On 9/12/2024 at 5:29 AM, Philooo said: Members of my community complain about the difficulty in finding information with the search integrated into Invision They tell me that they find what they are looking for more easily by asking for their keywords in Google and adding the name of my site ... Apart from the Elastic Search option offered in the Admin, is it not possible to integrate a Google search as proposed by Google in its Adsense offer for example? indeed, when I search this ipb forum the results are useless. I use google search for ipb questions, and better yet, a.i. but a.i. can occasionally be wrong.
Paras Posted December 8 Posted December 8 Even on this site the search is very inaccurate. XenForo is much more accurate.
Gary Posted December 9 Posted December 9 Hi @Paras, The search terms are slightly different when comparing to the XenForo search. Invision Community gives you more power behind your searches. Have you tried clicking 'The phrase "create a table"' or even 'create AND a AND table' to see if there are more favourable search results for you? Paras 1
RevengeFNF Posted December 9 Posted December 9 (edited) 10 hours ago, Paras said: XenForo is much more accurate. That's because Xenforo uses the "AND" operator while here they are using the "OR" operator. But you can change that in the Search settings. Edited December 9 by RevengeFNF Paras, Marc and Daniel F 2 1
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