>> I am thinking if it has already indexed the text of the menu than what will >> happen...
That should be fine - if you clear your content index completely and then re-crawl. SSP --> Search Settings --> Reset all crawled content >> Has anyone idea if this kind of thing also happens with the menu controls >> which come with MOSS or is it a problem only for custom menus.. Not sure about that, and I too am curious if the OOTB menus also cause this search index relevancy problem. Does anyone else experience these search relevancy problems caused by ootb navigation controls? Sezai Kömür BEng, BSc Senior Developer - Vivid Group Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist http://www.moss2007.com.au/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajay Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 5:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] Custom Menu text appearing in search results Thanks a lot mates.. so this means in my custom menu control.. I need to check at pre-render if the request is coming from MOSS Search and in this case hide the navigation control... I am thinking if it has already indexed the text of the menu than what will happen... My problem is that my knowledge of Sharepoint search is non-existant Has anyone idea if this kind of thing also happens with the menu controls which come with MOSS or is it a problem only for custom menus.. Many thanks A On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Sezai KOMUR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forwarded this on to an old friend who works overseas now who has experience > building this sort of thing. > >>> His reply > > Yeah I remember this stuff - bad memories mate :) Another option might be > to use JavaScript to build navigation menu items - the crawler wouldn't be > able to interpret the script. It kinda sucks to do this and it might break > accessibility requirements, screen readers and a bunch of other things. > > The solution you describe works, but you still need to provide some sort of > index of all site content if there's no other way for the crawler to follow > links. > > MondoSearch (remember that?!) used to support a <noindex>...</noindex> tag > that told the crawler to ignore a chunk of HTML. That's nice because links > can still be followed and the content is not indexed, but the tag is not > conformant to any HTML standards and wouldn't validate. > > A nice idea would be to add an attribute to an existing tag. Something like: > <div rel="noindex">...</div>. I *think* this is standards compliant but > would have to check. Certainly Google are pushing a rel="nofollow" attribute > and some other search engines are catching on. It would be nice if the > SharePoint search could support these. I haven't looked into it, but it > might be possible to extend (or replace) the existing iFilters for HTML to > add this behaviour. > > I guess hiding the navigation controls is the best approach right now. Even > though that still kinda sucks! > > > I'll stop with the ranting. You shouldn't have brought back those memories > :) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Culmsee > Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 4:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Custom Menu text appearing in search results > > Nice work Sezai. I find WGET excellent for this purpose also (for what it's > worth many sites abuse google crawls using UserAgent methods like this) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sezai KOMUR > Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 3:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Custom Menu text appearing in search results > > See this : > http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/LKuhn/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=49 > > You could possibly implement your own exclusion system by building in > "cloaking" for your navigation controls. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking > > 1. Implement code in your navigation control to detect the User Agent string > of the current request which will determine if the page is being indexed by > the Enterprise Search Crawler. You can get the crawler user agent string > from the following registry key. > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office > Server\12.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager] > > "UserAgent"="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT; MS > Search 5.0 Robot)" > > 2. If the user agent matches the above than this.Visible = false; in your > navigation control will hide it completely and the text will not be indexed. > > > It's quite complicated to test and implement this sort of thing - Firefox > has a User Agent Switcher add-on which you can use to test your code is > working correctly. > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list > with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. > Powered by mailenable.com > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list > with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. > Powered by mailenable.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. 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