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1. Matt Mullenweg
   Troublemaker
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   The search box on the forums now uses Google instead of the built-in search. The downside is it isn't going to be up-to-the-second with the latest stuff anymore. The good news is that Google seems to index the forums several times a day and the search also covers the wiki and the Codex and any other subdomains of wordpress.org. Enjoy!

2. Arlo
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   Call me crazy, but I don't like this new search..it feels disconcerting being taken out of WP's interface...

3. brainwidth
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   Annoying. Why replace the built-in search functionality with google, which everybody can use already? With the old native search functionality, I could get two different answers to searches: one from google and one from the forum search.

4. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   Thanks matt. Just cuts out a step for me!

5. Matt Mullenweg
   Troublemaker
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   I'll see if we can use a Google or Yahoo Search API to maybe show the results in a pretty WordPress wrapper.

6. dolmarit
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   At this time ok it is working straight I only used one search term and the results I get are all pointing to The WordPress site.

   But IMHO you are taking a great risk.

   Google is more and more taking over as far as I am concerned even hijacking websites.

   I think you should be very carefull with Google.

   Offcourse it is a great search engine, but the problem with Google is sometimes they give really unrelated search results.

   I think for the best it is still a good choice to keep also the search engine from within WordPress as a choice for users from this excelent and simple website.

   Untill now all results I got before you changed it to Google where very satisfying.

   So maybe its a good idea to keep a sharp eye on this new change.

   Martin

7. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   Finding a users profile page is trickier this way - though admittedly I don't use that search a lot.

8. expaand
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   It looks like the search is now using yahoo.

9. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Yep, old news.

   http://photomatt.net/2005/06/17/new-wporg-search/

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36762

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36899

10. expaand
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #
    

    The new search is fabulous. It would just be nice to have the old one as well, as it was specific to the structure of this forum.

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