New Search Feature
A new search feature is now online with major improvements:
- Results are in a single list now with the most relevant one first. This way if you’re looking for an author for example, you get the author first, not some of his books.
- You can filter the results based on the nature of the results (books/authors) or switch between the most relevant results and the most downloaded results.
You’ll notice that there’s 2 links for searching our website with Google, they act in a very different way compared to our search feature:
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Results on Google”: The basic Google search is useful if you’re looking for something in one of the page of our website, not strictly a book or an author. It could be a comment, the description of a book etc…
- “ Results on Google (PDF)”: The Google (PDF) link is useful for full text search. It’ll list only A4 PDFs as a result, but it can search inside those PDF files. If you’re looking for a quote for example, that’s the best way to search through our texts.
The only real problem with these links to Google is the fact that you have to wait for a few days before the content is listed, unlike our own search system.
With all these improvements, our search feature should be a lot easier and useful. You can also use this feature
within your own browser with our search extensions. There’s a lot of advanced features with the search system, I’ll do a full post about the possibilities behind it later on the blog.