Monday, August 9, 2010

Better & Faster Clean Run Article Searches

I just installed a couple of nice improvements to Googility's Periodical Search feature.

Previously the search results were ordered solely on the search engine's rating of each article's relevance to your search terms. That meant you might get results from 2000 or even longer ago on the first page of results.

I've just modified the search engine configuration to prefer the most recent results. So if you search for "Mecklenburg jump" to find Linda Mecklenburg's jumping articles you'll get her most recent articles on the first page and her older articles on later pages.

I've also changed the way I "index" the article's data to the search engine so that it can present the results 10x faster. It is a noticeable speed improvement.

Happy Searching!

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