Go ahead! I dare you - it is blazing! As I wrote in my last post, after our software upgrade last Monday we had to rebuild the site indexes for all BC sites across all of our data centers. The indexing task was completed at 3pm this afternoon and the engineers have just 'flicked the switch' to enable the new site search engine for all BC sites. Both the site search (which searches forums, blog posts, web-app items, products etc) and product search (which searches products only) are powered by the same upgraded engine.
The Result:
- Speed - the new site search is exponentially faster period. Where we used to measure site search result generation in seconds, we are now measuring in milliseconds in the latest performance tests. Even on large sites like businesscatalyst.com, search results are being returned almost instantaneously for commonly occurring keywords.
- Search Terms Highlighted in Results: in the text blurb displayed below the result link the search will now display the text fragment that surrounds the search terms to give a better context for the result. The search terms themselves will be highlighted. In the past the system would display the first paragraph of the item description.
Some Partners have asked whether or not features like keyword stemming and wildcards are supported. We are looking to add these to site search in the future. In the meantime your clients' customers will still have a lightning fast and accurate search to help improve their website usability without you having to make any modifications at all.
Remove Unused Tags from Your Blogs
Finally I want to mention that we have now also enabled you to delete blog tags when you aren't using them anymore. You just need to click the little 'delete' icon next to each tag to remove the tag permanently from the system.
Just another bit of good news to go with a Friday afternoon. Happy Weekend everyone!
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