I just fixed the Site Search functionality.

Previously, searches were limited to 20 characters (including spaces) and would cut the search terms off when it got to 20. Now, you can search on a long phrase, business name, or even a paragraph of text.

In addition, the search now defaults to "All" words. Previously, it defaulted to "Any" words which resulted in poor results.

Previous Results:

Searching on the words: Mountain Bike Trail
Resulted in: All results with EITHER Mountain OR Bike OR Trail

New Results:

Searching on the words: Mountain Bike Trail
Results: Only results that contain Mountain AND Bike AND Trail

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Limitations:

* Unlike Google, we can not correct for misspellings or offer alternatives to misunderstood search terms. In other words, if you search with a misspelling like Corthouse Cofee, it will return zero results (until now, because I misspelled it and THAT will show in the search results).

* Using quotes " " around the search term does not help. Searching on "Mountain Bike" will return zero results.

Post edited by: cgraham, at: 2007/10/09 23:35