2
votes
3answers
61 views
Do backlinks and content give me a better shot at survival?
I’ve been trying to figure out what kind of site to try and have started and trash canned 3 already. After writing out a bunch of questions and spending some time with the subject …
0
votes
0answers
12 views
Partial word matches when searching?
Why when I type in
brows
into the search does it not find articles containing the word
browsing
Seems like very unexpected (non-Google like) behaviour?
3
votes
1answer
25 views
How do I include my site in alternative search engine’s index?
I would like to include my site in the yahoo and bing index as well. It does not seem to be happening automatically. Is there something I need to do? Is it going to be happen over …
2
votes
1answer
18 views
How to add a search form in another page ?
I have been trying to add a search form in the frontpage of my SE platform (www.climatedeal.org) but cannot manage to send the search term inserted in the text input field as if I …
1
vote
1answer
40 views
Adding search to Firefox search engine list
In Firefox I got the following error when I tried to add the search engine for my site:
Firefox could not download the search plugin from:
http://careeroverflow.com/opensearc …
6
votes
3answers
79 views
Can we get a better functioning search bar?
Right now search sucks, you can search for an exact phrase and it still doesn't find it.
I propose a real time matching option that matches directly to the title and shows results …
4
votes
1answer
46 views
Bug: Searching “about me” doesn’t work
When I search "about me" (http://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=about+me) it will return:
Please enter some text to search for in the upper right!
Any explanation why?
Edit …
3
votes
2answers
67 views
Search interprets words as tags
Repro:
Type "google group" (without quotes) into the search box.
SE will look for the word "group" within questions tagged "google" even though "google" was not put in square bra …
24
votes
1answer
161 views
No Advanced Search on SE sites
S[OFU] added advanced search options in July, but it looks like these options don't work on SE sites (I've mostly been experimenting on meta.SE, but I tried some of the other sites …
4
votes
5answers
129 views
Alternate ways of building pagerank while the feed/sitemap still show stackexchange url
I'm an SEO newb, but I do know that Google will not index our sitemaps or feeds if we use a domain name because the links in the sitemap/feeds point to <yoursite>.stackexchan …
4
votes
1answer
72 views
Can a stack exchange site use another full text search engine?
It's always been a problem on StackOverflow, so maybe Joel or Jeff have a strong opinion against it for some reason.
But the current search engine just doesn't cut it: I search f …
1
vote
1answer
30 views
Feature Request - Search statistics
Can we get a statistics page to show what searches users are performing within the site?
1
vote
5answers
88 views
How much time are search visitors staying on your site?
I'm only just starting, and the seven visitors that came to my site from search engines spent an average on 42 seconds on the site.
(You can get this information from Google Analy …
4
votes
2answers
56 views
Can we relate tags to each other for searches
For my site, I have at couple of pairs of tag where each is equally valid but they mean exactly the same thing.
For example, a popular (among psychologists) program was, up until …
1
vote
2answers
52 views
Are there URLs where we can spider the questions and answers of our StackExchange Site?
We would like to spider our SE website with our website-spider so we can show SE results in our site search on our website