Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (395 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On Jul 29, 10 11:57:37 -0600, Matthew Ehle wrote:
> I have updated the production site, so it now includes the Google
> extension.  To try it out, just go to
> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:GoogleSearch and try out your favorite
> search term.
>  
> As Henne mentioned, a major difference here is that it will not simply
> take you to a wiki page if you type in something obvious (e.g. Firefox).
> Depending on how you look at it, this is either a good or a bad thing.

> From Usability Point of View an extra click is often regarded as a degrade
in user experience. It could be argued that the click is useless, as the
default search engine can do the same without it.

In this case I'd say that the extra click is not useless, as it shows that
our wiki has more than one page with this result. This is a good thing from
user experience. 

> If you really are looking for the main Firefox page, the default search
> takes you right there, where the Google search only places it at the top
> of the search results.  However, if you are looking for some other
> article dealing with Firefox, the Google search is vastly superior.

The main google used to implement this direct jump function with its 'I feel 
luck
button' Do we also have this in the site search?

Can we influence the results of the google search? We may want to move
results from Portal and Main namespaces to the top, to honor the higher
quality of the pages found there.

        cheers,
                JW-

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