On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:33:18PM -0500, Pete Prodoehl wrote: > I've seen sites where I could read a word on a page, input it into the > 'site search' box, and get no results. This tells me that the word does > not exist on the site (even though I can see it) or more likely that > this is not really a 'site search' but perhaps a 'content search' or > 'article search' or whatever...
Of course, if the word is on every page on the site (a global header or footer) the word is useless as a search term for helping someone find something on the site. Unless they are looking for everything. ;) There's also the rare chance that indexing the common text makes it harder to find content about something specific -- when that word might also be in the header/footer. Ranking should take care of that, though. Excluding menus is also slightly helpful when common menu items might end up as search terms. But, I would agree that in most cases it's better to index the content, and let the user worry about using good queries. Anyway, how much common content do you want on every page on the site? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
