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Created: Jan 14, 2008
Updated: Nov 01, 2009
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What Are You Looking For?
by Kerry Vineberg (sternklar)
By the first week of October, something very useful, but very subtle, will be changing in the way you use WiserEarth. We've listened to your issues with our search function not giving you the results you want, and our team has been hard at work.
mnoGO, our current search engine, was top of the line in open-source search technology when WiserEarth launched in 2005. Since then, our developers Rehan Ifthikar and Oz Basarir, along with product manager Honore Louie, have pushed it to its limit. But the time has come, the members have spoken, and we now give you... Sphinx.
Sphinx is a search engine used by such search-heavy sites as Craigslist. It also boasts an active, open-source community that was very supportive as WiserEarth pursued its implementation these past three months. Better still, Sphinx is easily configurable and requires fewer resources (meaning speed for you!).
Best of all, the new system streamlines your searching experience in the following ways:
1) If you search using location, you will now receive results from a radius around a city. That's because Sphinx searches for location based on coordinates rather than simply the name. So you won't miss out on that Berkeley job posting if you search using San Francisco! But if you only want San Francisco jobs you can narrow your search area.
2) No more chasing the search link around the page: the advanced search panel will now always appear on the left-hand side like a trusty assistant.
3) Find all the great sustainable events in your area for the next few weeks, by searching a date range rather than a single day.
4) Search for that plus that, don't include that: That's right, you can now include Boolean operators in your search, like with Google. So you can search, for example, for 'women plus rights but not mining'. Our symbols are a little different, but here's a quick tutorial:
You want: women AND rights
You type: women & rights
You want: women OR rights
You type: women | rights
You want: women NOT mining
You type: women -mining
You want the phrase: "women mining"
You type: ( women mining )
Are you excited yet? Louie says, "We hope you'll notice a positive difference in the accuracy of your search!" He suggests, if you ever get different search results that weren't what you were expecting, sharing the specifics of what you searched for, your results, and what you were expecting, so that our tech team can continue to improve your experience.
The WiserEarth team will also be setting up a forum on the WiserEarth Suggestions Group for Sphinx Search Feedback, and welcomes your thoughts as it launches. Happy searching!
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Flag comment for removal JBinternational 12 days ago
Its nice to be part of the wiser earth and sharing lots of learning to people in the clean water and sanitation enterprise that can help rural women and children who still die of diarrhoea diseases around the world
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Well done and good luck Rehan, Oz, Honore and all the rest who work on this transition, it sounds really exciting...
I have been trying to link up groups with groups and of course the alternative instruction does not work. Do you have an idea how long it'll be to the new launch, or, whether there is another way to add one group to another?
Best wishes
Narda |
