Everyfind 8 Showcase

Everyfind: JavaScript-based Search Engine

Article by John Windhorst, Minneapolis
Jul-2007
Everyfind 8

I made the changes because I believe it makes things easier for my web site visitors - many of whom are older, not very comfortable with computers, and not regular visitors. My two main sites are my church (westwoodlutheran.org) and my breathing impaired group (COPD-Support1.com).

Categories are not appropriate for these sites (too complex) so I eliminated all reference to Categories.

Result page

I changed the boolean default from OR to AND. I doubt many people want to search for all occasions of more than one word but I can see where they would expect a two-word combination to be common. At the church, I tested names - "Nelson", vs "Ronald Nelson", vs "Robert Nelson". Results look good to me.

I re-labeled words. Keyword now refers only to those words at the site (words the program found and put in the DB); Operator is just OR, AND, or NOT; and Search words are what a user types in - to search for. (Search words could be called Query words.)

I changed Accuracy to Ranking. To me, Accuracy implies quality, how good or bad; and Ranking implies quantity, relative importance.

I edited the xml files - removed all but English words from words.xml; and increased from 100 to 500 the maximum number of keywords per file in set.xml.

I added your JavaScript variable to the file headers so the search results are more specific (avoids having all links starting out with "Westwood Lutheran Church"). The following is from the head for an HTML sermon page - the title is still used by internet search engines, but Everyfind uses the JavaScript VAR instead.

...
<title>Westwood Lutheran Church - Sermon</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var pagetitle = "Sermon, July 8, 2007"
</script>
...