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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>MinutiaeMan</b> <br /><small>Member # 444</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2004,6,23,7,56,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 23, 2004</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:56 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Seeing as how there are at least a few other webmasters hanging around here, I thought I'd ask you guys this question:<br /><br />For the past two or three years, I've been using the <a href="http://www.xav.com/scripts/search/">Fluid Dynamics Search Engine</a> to run the searches on my site. It's a pretty useful tool, with the ability to perform searches by section of my site (by directory) in addition to searching the entire site.<br /><br />However, I've come to realize that the FDSE only runs a general search based on the number of occurrences of the given terms that are being searched for. I've investigated a script that uses the Google API to provide searches of my site using their engine and database, and it seems to work pretty well. (Well, it did until I moved to my new server, which doesn't yet have a certain tool that's required to run the script installed, but they're going to install it soon.)<br /><br />Here, you can compare the two sets of search results:<br /><a href="http://www.st-minutiae.com/search/search.cgi?Match=1&Realm=All&Terms=romulan&submit=Search" target="_blank">http://www.st-minutiae.com/search/search.cgi?Match=1&Realm=All&Terms=romulan&submit=Search</a><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.st-minutiae.com+romulan&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.st-minutiae.com+romulan&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0</a><br /><br />So here's my dilemma: Google provides better search results, but the FDSE has some better features. But how important do you think those features are? I did some checking in my old search logs, and it turns out that out of the 930-odd searches that were performed in the last year, only about 10% of them were performed on a specific realm (as opposed to the entire site).<br /><br />I guess it all boils down to this: Do you think that 10% of the searches is significant enough to justify a decision to keep using the old search engine instead of switching to Google? <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Cartman</b> <br /><small>Member # 256</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2004,6,23,8,59,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 23, 2004</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:59 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Well, if Apple thinks that a market share of 10% is significant enough to justify their decision to continue to build Macs, then 10% of a search share is probably significant enough to justify a decision to keep using the old search engine. B) <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Ritten</b> <br /><small>Member # 417</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2004,6,23,9,59,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 23, 2004</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:59 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Given a choice, let the people decide....<br /><br />Post both and see which the majority of your vistors choose, then either keep both as a conveinience(close enough), or remove the lesser used..... <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>TSN</b> <br /><small>Member # 31</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2004,6,23,10,42,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 23, 2004</span> <span class="timeformat-0">10:42 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> All this fuss because Google turned up <i>one</i> more result than the other one did? <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>MinutiaeMan</b> <br /><small>Member # 444</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2004,6,23,10,56,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">July 23, 2004</span> <span class="timeformat-0">10:56 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> No, it's not because Google returned one extra result -- it's mainly because of how the two engines <i>order</i> the results. FDSE just does a straight occurrence search, while Google has its fancy algorithms to determine the relative importance of the word.<br /><br />I'm mainly trying to gauge opinion about which might be better/more desirable for visitors. <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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