Maybe that would be better than thinking that one is searching all of MBS and 
getting no usable results. When I go to MonkeybreadSoftware.xxx and there is a 
button that says "Search Site" I think it is not unreasonable to assume that 
the documentation is part of the "site".

Another approach would be to make the two sites visually different in some 
ways, so the user is aware that they are on a different site with different 
search domains. Right now the two sites are virtually identical and there are 
no visual cues that the search domain has changed (other than the URL). Make 
the search field/button look different, put it in a different place, add a 
caption that says "Search Documentation", have two search buttons with 
different captions describing what each one searches, etc. In other words, 
don't assume that users are mind readers :)

Thanks,
julia


Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 20:23:11 +0200
From: Christian Schmitz 
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Subject: Re: [MBS]  How to efficiently search in the documentation
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Am 12.05.2013 um 13:22 schrieb Julia Truchsess 
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Wow, that is totally un-obvious. The search field "Site Search" and its caption 
are identical on both sites. The fact that the "main" site has a ".de" domain 
and the "documentation" site has a ".net" domain is the only clue that you're 
somewhere else, and you'd need to be a mind reader to guess that the "Site 
Search" does something totally different on each.


So you would prefer a search going over all our websites instead of one for the 
one your at?

Greetings
Christian

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