On Jan 14, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Denny wrote: > More specifically, regarding site search features... Google site > search > only works to the extent that Google decide to spider your site, > and is > dependent on their algorithms' decisions on what is or isn't > worthwhile > content to index. An internal search engine can run straight from > your > database, massively reducing the load on your web front-end, and > you can > set your own priorities and preferences. There are doubtless many > other > reasons to prefer 'reinventing' this particular wheel too.
Also adding: many people have the "block spiders & robots" setting turned on, because they don't want their content to be spidered elsewhere on the web, but wouldn't mind being searchable via DW itself. Generally, a plugin to Google Search is okay for a small hobbyist site, and can be useful for some larger sites if they have excellent information architecture and/or mostly static pages, but for any site like DW where content is rapidly-shifting, homegrown is more practical; you can tailor it precisely to your needs, rather than trying to tailor your site to Google or whoever's offerings. --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
