Hey,
I was hoping to get some ideas on improving a sites search. Currently I
have two - not a lot but I've been thinking about this for a few minutes.
Currently the site in question uses a very basic LIKE in MySQL, eg
%blah%, but naturally this finds terms such as hjkblahbjkk - which is
not desired. Or such matches should be ranked lower than something that
matches the exact word blah. My thoughts are using a points system, eg
assigning 5 points for an exact word match, 1 for a partial match. And
then ordering the search results by the total points assigned.
Either that or using external search code and not worrying so much.
Cheers.
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Richard Heyes
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