RawSugar: blog search box and directory
In a previous post I suggested ways to add a search box to your blog content.
One way was to add all your posts into Furl as this can search full-text of your posts, and can also search within just a blog category…cool.
But firstly Furl doesn’t let you export a search box and if it did could you search by topic as well as the whole account.
At the moment I use del.icio.us as a mirror for my blog, mostly as a title index (quicker to find posts this way), but it lacks full-text so Furl may have been a better option, anyhow del.icio.us doesn’t offer code for a search box either.
Well if you bookmark all your blog posts into RawSugar you can drop a search box into your blog (although Raw Sugar doesn’t search full-text).
Not only can you search your account (mirror of your blog) but you can click on the tag categories.
It needs to search full-text, and also search within just a category, then we are in business.
Here is what they plan to add:
“Add guided search to be seamless part of your blog
Allow you to tag your entries to RawSugar directly from your blog [see here]
Import your existing blog entries and tags to RawSugar so you can get started quickly”
Also check out the update on adding an OPML directory to your sidebar.
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Actually, you can get full text search of the pages in your RawSugar collection with our new embedded search JavaScript. For a good example check out Bill’s Movie Reviews, which admittedly uses a bit of hand coding to get the tags but the text search box is the JavaScript available to all users.
Comment by Bill Lazar — October 12, 2005 @ 7:08 pm
Bill
I can’t seem to get full-text search to work.
I had a look at your review for “Garden State”, in the review is the term “pillowcases”….so I entered this term into the Javascript search box, when it launched to RawSugar it showed no results.
So according to my experience, it doesn’t search full-text, am I doing something wrong?
When you claim full-text search, do you mean the same as Furl, Simpy…?
Comment by Johnt — October 14, 2005 @ 2:15 am
John,
I think you found a bug, which I’ll be filing with Engineering right after this, but this is part of why we still have the beta label up. To reproduce the problem I searched on pillowcases and got the same problem as you. On a second pass I entered the term movies (which is a tag), then on the resulting page entered pillowcases and clicked Refine, which gets me to a result page in which my review is the first (and only) item:
http://www.rawsugar.com/pages/searchAction.faces?__se=0&__ss=A&__rn=10&__t0=tpc&__de=&__q0=1839&__dw=&__rf=0&__c=%2Fpages%2FsearchAction.faces&__dg=&__dc=&__qs=1&__noc=0&qftLabel=false&searchBox%3Aqft=pillowcases&st=A&find=Refine
(Note that we’re going to simplify the URL scheme in the next development cycle.)
Thanks for your feedback and continued interest in RawSugar.
Comment by Bill Lazar — October 14, 2005 @ 5:52 pm
Bill,
It works this time round, so it seems RawSugar searches full-text, good stuff.
From the Raw Sugar page it seems you can choose a tag, then search within this tag by choosing refine…I think the furl method of a drop down topic/tag menu is more intuitive.
Is there plans to be able to search within a tag from the java search box that you embed in a blog?
Comment by Johnt — October 18, 2005 @ 1:57 am