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John Troyer Novice 106 posts since
Feb 22, 2007
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Jun 19, 2007 4:13 PM

Search: users want it be Google

One of the biggest complaints with our current community (Jive Forums 4.2) is that the default behavior of search is not like Google. They type in search terms that would work fine in Google (''server backup'') and because Forums defaults to OR, items with only one of their terms (''server'' or ''backup'') dominate the top of the results page, even when items with ''server'' and ''backup'' (and ''server backup'') are available.

 

It looks like this carries through to Clearspace. But please enlighten me if I''m wrong, since I''ve done only a small amount of testing.

 

Thoughts/suggestions? How can we get Clearspace search to act more like the Google searches people are used to? It''s been a while since I messed with Lucene, so I''m not sure what''s possible.

 

Default to AND?

Syntactic sugar to modify naive queries?

Fancier scoring to boost items with multiple OR keywords?

Point our Google Search Appliance at Clearspace and chuck Lucene?

Will French Jive Employee 3,905 posts since
Nov 2, 2004
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Jun 19, 2007 4:51 PM in response to: John Troyer
Re: Search: users want it be Google

Hey John,

 

I just replied to your other post concerning your search testing in Clearspace.  The search feature is +supposed + to work as described here: https://jivespace.pdx-int.jivesoftware.com/help/search-tips.html?peopleEnabled=true&resultTypes=COMMUNITY&q=asfdasfd

 

And currently it doesn''t, hence the bug report here: http://www.jivesoftware.com/issues/browse/CS-1284

 

-Will

Aaron Johnson Jive Employee 1,169 posts since
Jan 7, 2004
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Jun 20, 2007 9:50 AM in response to: John Troyer
Re: Search: users want it be Google

hi John,

 

You should be able to see the document Will was describing by going to your Clearspace instance:

 

http://example.com/help/search-tips.html

 

I haven''t tested this, but from looking at the code, I believe you can change the default search behavior to use ''AND''.  Set a system property:

 

search.defaultOperator = AND

 

Let me know if that works.

 

Cheers,

 

AJ

Jackie2.0 Novice 56 posts since
Sep 22, 2009
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Nov 6, 2009 8:40 AM in response to: John Troyer
Re: Search: users want it be Google

has there been any updates on this subject matter or feature?

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