9/22/05

Search

by lawrence at Thursday, September 22, 2005
OK, we're making progress on the new RateItAll site search engine.

We now have the category of each search result showing up, which makes it much easier to find what you need.

For example, see these search results for George W. Bush.

As you can see, the first three results show that you can rate him in the context of 1) US Politicians and Officials ; 2) US Presidents; and 3) Republican Convention Speakers.

We have a couple of more tweaks planned that should make the new search engine even easier to use... stay tuned.

2 comments:

  1. lawrenceSeptember 23, 2005 12:31 AM

    Hi mr. political, as mentioned earlier, you can access the old search engine whenever you need it here:

    http://www.rateitall.com/search.aspx

    My hope is that in the next couple of days, we'll have the new one working far better than the old one.

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  2. kamylienneSeptember 25, 2005 8:40 AM

    I look forward to seeing this thing up and running (after all the bugs are worked out). I see a lot of potential for this. The former search engine seemed more accurate for pulling up related lists, this new one seems to bring up a lot more than that (whether that's good or bad seems to be dependant on what you want to use the search feature for).

    I tried looking up "Corpse Bride", "Corpse", and "Bride" on its own, but couldn't get the new movie to pop up (not that it's hard to click into "current release movies" and do it that way, but, well, I'm lazy).

    Out of curiousity, I just edited my post to contain the movie name in the post somewhere, to see if the search looks up the phrase that way as well. So far, it hasn't come up.

    . . . I'll get the hang of this thing eventually . . .

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