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=== Native (Application) Search === | === Native (Application) Search === | ||
Applications such as this wiki (runs on MediaWiki), and CMS systems (e.g. Drupal) obviously know their own content. So, if you are looking for something and want the best results for those applications, you should make use of the direct search facilities in the application. | Applications such as this wiki (runs on MediaWiki), and CMS systems (e.g. Drupal) obviously know their own content. So, if you are looking for something and want the best results for those applications, you should make use of the direct search facilities in the application. | ||
| − | # [[mw:Search]] helps you learn and understand the search capabilities of | + | # [[mw:Search]] helps you learn and understand the search capabilities of MediaWiki |
| − | # Note that the simplest enhancement you can make to a small-scale installation is to tweak the MySQL stopwords and word-length. | + | # Note that the simplest enhancement you can make to a small-scale installation is to tweak the MySQL stopwords and word-length. |
| + | # The built-in search capability of MediaWiki can be insufficient in some ways. Like the MediaWiki project, '''this site uses [[Elasticsearch]] as the underlying search engine'''. | ||
Note that this wiki and the CMS systems also provide an 'OpenSearch' implementation that lets you use your browser's search toolbar to directly search these applications. | Note that this wiki and the CMS systems also provide an 'OpenSearch' implementation that lets you use your browser's search toolbar to directly search these applications. | ||
