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Hi Helmuti,

I am not sure exactly what the "search center" is.
But what I was hoping for is very similar to what is found in wikipedia.

The problem is that the search needs to match a specific tag (page title), otherwise it would not be useful.

Eg. If I have article on "Golf" and that article mentions Tiger Woods.
And I have another article specifically on "Tiger Woods"

When I do a search for "Tiger Woods, " then I would want the search to open up the tiger woods article and NOT the Golf article.

Thinking about this some more perhaps a "Search by page tags" option?

ifsearch=page-tag then
open the page

"Seach Center" - left menu the link to search - leads to an entry form for the ggogle search machine , which has gerdami build for the most used wikidot "community sites" .

But this will not help you - because itb searches for all - not only titles or file names…

What we need is something like the created urL when I search only PAGES ( without forum) for "feed"
http://helmuti-pdorf.wikidot.com/search:site/a/p/q/feed

Unfortunately you are right Helmuti.
The google search will not work either.

But I know from the google group of wikidot developers ( the wikidot.org) that there is Gabrys testing a "complete new" search facility to implement on wikidot.
Have a look at his blog http://piotr.gabryjeluk.pl/ ( issues - wikidot search…)

Item: http://piotr.gabryjeluk.pl/dev:wikidot-search-ready-to-test

Here in a short overview the new coming features:

Features

• First of all the new search applies only to the Search All Sites i.e. Search This Site works in the old way.
• Search uses titles and tags intelligently
  • pages with the exact search phrase in the title are placed higher in the result list
  • pages with tags matching search phrase are quite high in the result list
  • pages with title matching search phrase are quite high in the result list
  • pages with content matching search phrase are somewhere low in result list
  • pages with parts of search phrase matching titles and tags can be higher in the result list than the pages having content matching even the exact phrase
  • this all means: tags and titles are more important than content for the search engine
• You can narrow your search to only selected wikis
  • append site:site1,site2,site3 (no spaces between them) to your search query. Example: search for "gabrys site:www,community" searches for gabrys in titles, tags and contents of pages and threads inside of sites www.yourdomain.com and community.yourdomain.com (supposing your Wikidot installation runs on yourdomain.com)
• The search includes public sites plus sites you are a member of. Also the results from your sites are generally more relevant to the search engine (i.e. they appear higher than the results from other sites)
• The search results for given phrase for given user are cached (if memcached is used) for a few minutes. This makes the search even more smooth (no need to search the index again when user only switches the result page from 2 to 3 for example).

Help on Syntax:

http://piotr.gabryjeluk.pl/search-syntax

Fantastic news. I can't wait.

I can imagine.. :)