Add special search mode for underlay pages
It would be nice to be able to exclude underlay pages from a search, or limit a search to them.
Why?
- increase quality of search hits
when I want to search for Apache (or worse, MoinMoin) in my own pages, I get lots of help page hits
- vice versa, if I search for help on "searching" or other very common words, I'll likely get a lot of my own pages mixed in
Proposal:
exclude underlay from search: -title:underlay
limit to underlay: title:underlay
- This is completly incompatible.
note that -title:xxx would be useful generally (mimics the not operator for search words)
variant: add a new modifier meta, which then would allow the inclusion / exclusion based on meta-data, including meta:underlay and meta:lang=de
see also ../AddCategorySearchTerm, which could be meta:category=xxx
Why not just add CategoryUnderlay to all the underlay pages? Then you can put -CategoryUnderlay in your search. This would also allow you to create additional pages that have a similar purpose to the underlay pages, and put them in the same category. (Personally, I would prefer it if underlay pages were automatically excluded unless I added a search criteria, but I'm sure some people would not agree.) -- SteveDavison 2006-05-04 01:26:29