{"id":11502,"date":"2007-08-13T11:14:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T18:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/13\/searching-glances-6.html"},"modified":"2007-08-13T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T18:14:32","slug":"searching_glances_6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/searching_glances_6.html","title":{"rendered":"Searching glances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking a serious look at the Fast Search plug-in<\/a> for Movable Type, which, by using a fulltext index for entries, promises (and, based on comments out there, fulfills) much faster searching than the built-in MT search.  It also has some nice features like sorting by relevancy and highlighting search terms. <\/p>\n

Only two problems I see:<\/p>\n

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  1. Currently, Fast Search only does entries, not comments.  That would be troublesome, as there’s lots of content in the comments here that would become “invisible” (short of a Google search to site:hill-kleerup.org<\/em>).<\/li>\n
  2. It’s not currently supported under the MT 4.0 beta (though I’ve every reason to think it will be in the future).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It looks like it replaces the MT search functionality, which is unfortunate.  If it didn’t, then I could have a “Fast Search” and “Normal Search” option for, say, this blog (which has tons of comments), while having just the “Fast Search” for some place like WIST.<\/p>\n

    I have a couple of questions in to the developer, so we’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Taking a serious look at the Fast Search plug-in for Movable Type, which, by using a fulltext index for entries, promises (and, based on comments out there, fulfills) much faster…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3016,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/21\/searching_glanc.html","url_meta":{"origin":11502,"position":0},"title":"Searching glances","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Aug-02 5:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I finally finished sifting through the thousand-odd Blogger entries I imported to MT a few months ago, cleaning up titles and giving them all categories. 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