Thanks Andrea.  Chris Patterson sent me this link for Google Custom Search:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

I'll look into this and see if it fits our needs.

If anyone else has any suggestions, please vocalize.  :)

Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org


Andrea Aime wrote:
> Mike Pumphrey ha scritto:
>> Hi there.  So as everyone knows, the Confluence search feature on our 
>> wiki isn't (to put it mildly) as helpful as it could be*.  I am keen 
>> on fixing this, although I wonder if fixing the Confluence search 
>> itself would be worthwhile.  As an alternative, perhaps we should 
>> investigate building in a Google site search.  (Personally, when I 
>> need to find something on geoserver.org, I go to Google and append 
>> "site:geoserver.org" to my request.)  In lieu of the upcoming 
>> semi-move to Sphinx, I wonder if this would be advantageous to pursue 
>> this now.
> 
> I agree with the sentiment, I usually don't even add the 
> site:geoserver.org as most OGC related searches have a hit on our
> site anyways (good!).
> And also agree with the solution, I mean, it should not be that
> complex to implement, wouldn't it?
> We can start by having a non themed version of the results, and if
> there is time we can think about making it styled according to
> our site (provided that this is possible).
> But yeah, search is an important tool, so I'm very much +1 on fixing
> it so that it works (and then eventually spend some time to make
> it look good too).
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 

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