Google Mini
April 22nd, 2005 at 3:20 pm by Rakesh
One of the things that we’ve been working on adding to our website for the past couple of months is a high quality integrated search. We evaluated a bunch of options, some hosted, some software. None of them worked that well. The biggest problem I had with most of the solutions we looked at were ranking of search results — most of them were intuitively bad at ranking results.
About a month ago, I came across the perfect solution — the Google Mini. It took me about 15 minutes of reading about this thing before I was at the buy page ordering one.
With the new Google Mini-powered search box on the frontpage of our website, all of our web visitors can search all of our web resources, whether it’s one of the hundreds of knowledgebase articles, thousands of forum postings or any page on www.snapstream.com. Try it out and let us know what you think!
May 5th, 2005 at 8:50 am
Good catch, I’m going to look into what is causing this. But what’s happening here is first of all, on the first search for PC Magazine, the Google Mini is setup to remove indented formatting and show all results (equivalent of clicking the “automatically reload the search results page to repeat the search with the omitted results included”) because no more than two results are found in a directory. That’s what brings the search results to six pages. And then, when you browse to the second page, the indented formatting gets turned back on (which is where, it seems, the problem lies).