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Web Wiz Site Search Relevancy Upgrade
Improve the relevancy of the Web Wiz Site Search script with this simple addon.
Background
When tracking down some of the contributions I have made to the net for posting on this site I remembered about this little addon I whipped up one day for a free site search that was available from webwizguide.com.
When I went back to have a look I discovered that this little script had been discontinued so I fished the post out of the Google cache and cleaned it up for reposting here.
It might not be the most popular tutorial on this site but there were a lot of developers who paid for the commercial license (one of my clients was using this on a site I was rebuilding when I discovered it), and now they may still find this guide.
Ok so thats an intro roughly the length of the tip!
How to improve the search script
I have created a little modification to the script which strips out a lot of extra text like your navigation menu's, footers and the like.
All my document copy is contained within a div <div id="copy_column"></div>.
I added a comment (EOC = End of Copy) to the end of the div in my template file so that the code knows which closing div is the correct one.
By adding this first line of code below into your site it constrains the search to purely within actual website copy! You will notice that the third line of code is now commented out.
Thats all you have to do.
This code starts around line 430.
'RTP
'only search copy
strFileContents = GetFileMetaTag("<div id=""copy_column"">", "</div><!-- EOC -->", strFileContents)
'Strip HTML tags from the contects of the file to be searched
strFileContents = objRegExp.Replace(strFileContents,"")
'RTP - REMOVED
'Put the tittle, description and the keywords back into the file to be searched
'strFileContents = strFileContents & " " & strPageTitle & " " & strPageDescription & " " & strPageKeywords
