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[echo@]

was wondering how easy this would be, and .. if any one thinks this should be part of indexu?

Im finding people search my indexu and often spell the search phrase wrong,
indexu then returns no results and the visitor leaves the site.

It would be nice to see a "Did you mean?" link like googles,

[FSGDAG]

That would be great!

[Bruceper]

It would be a good idea, but probaby hard to impliment.

What would be required? Probably some type of script that did a partial match on the search in question if there were less than x results.

Lets say a user searched for goggle.com on your directory. There might actually be one result, but since there are less than x (x could be 3 or 5) then it would need to search for broad matches like g****e.com or even go**le.com

Something like this would require a rewrite of the search system, but it could be done. How broad you make the matches can make or break it though. You could tell the search to return matches for results that are only one character off, so goggle would match google, but boggle would not match google since there are two characters that are off.

Again, excellent idea, but hard to impliment unless you're a pretty good programmer.

[Mickey]

Hello,

I used a very simple solution

I created a block with "Google Search" inside. Google Search is a part of Google Adsense. You just include a code in a block to make a search window appear (but with IndexU, you must create a block.google.html AND a block.google.php)
So, when people ask something "wrong" (typo or a something not existing in my directory), Google Search displays a page with a lot of search results and well targeted ads. So, the guy clicks most of the time on the ads, and you get Adsense money
You can choose the code to include the search results inside your web site template with your other blocks and menus.
Google did all the work for you !

[Mitchell]

That is a grat idea but the problem is that they still leave your site, if you want them to stay in your site you can change the (Nothing found for the keyword "seerch term") to;

Content visible to License Owner only.

[echo@]

sounds like a good idea, but you have no control over the way listings are shown.
this also wouldnt work for people who cannot put adverts on there site.

And you have to wait for google to index your site before the content is visible in googles search results, this method would not be instant for searching new listing articles etc.

I might be wrong on this, anyone clarifiy?

Ideally i would like to see this in the indexu search, its a nice idea but i think this is a massive job...

[CEC]

I've posted this product before:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/index.html

I've tried older variations, and it works very well.

[Bruceper]

Zoom looks nice, and probably very useful, but in the case of a very dynamic site it is useless because the user must reindex the site. If you want a search feature it must be able to spider your pages on it's own and rebuild it's own index without user intervention.

I think the IndexU search could be improved and changed to include a function like this, but at the moment I have to say it is not a priority. Once we release the next version (Deluxe v1.1 coming soon) then perhaps we can take a look at adding this function.