Bring back integrated search to community.elgg.org

I just noticed that Google Search was turned on for this Community site. How am I supposed to search specifically for Plugins? I think that the integrated search is a great feature of the Elgg platform, and to a new user the use of Google Search would seem like a strange way to search one's own site.

If it's a matter of performance issues, then I'd suggest a Search Index plugin be developed?

Just my 2 cents. Great software, thanks.

  • @saurabh, my Google Search  plugin as displayed by rjcalifornia is providing both options

    It does not disable Elgg search, but only adds google in the top bar and still has the normal look and feel of a site.

    You can still search on tags, members, plugins and or other categories.  The trouble with normal search is basically:

    - It displays content based on time created, not on relevancy

    - It is slow, since it has to search the entire database(entitities) and that is an issue on larger sites. 

    I do not think that we can beat Google on their searching algoritm, but if someone is willing to take that as a challenge. I am in to help :-)

    I do believe that the basic google algoritm is publicly known, so that might be a good start.

  • @Gerard Kanters

    I actually prefer your search. Elgg default search is heavy and it doesn't find the things you need sometimes.

  • Hi Paweł Sroka ;

    I was just doing POC with "https://github.com/ewinslow/elgg-sphinx" and "https://github.com/Srokap/search_solr" both are working fine. Then why we are not using these search in the Community search why still we are using the Google search here ..

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