Hello, I tried to search for moodle 1.4 release date and the results were quite disappointing. The same query in Google returned relevant results. Are there any plans to implement some significantly better search algorithm? Otherwise it's quite pointless to have built-in search in Moodle at all (OK, it can be useful when you know the exact phrase - but that's not a typical situation).
Google searches more than the forums in one course, it searches pages from all over this site and the web. This gives it a slight advantage. 
Did you see the advanced search page?
Did you see the advanced search page?
I naturally restricted Google's search results with "site:moodle.org/mod/forum". The tricky thing is that there are actually no forum posts containing information about moodle 1.4 release date but even in this situation, Google returns much more meaningful results. Moodle's first result (except first post in this thread) is something like "updated MS SQL patch", "adding images to quizzes" and other really strange things.
I looked at advanced search page but
Regards, Borek.
I looked at advanced search page but
- I don't think it can solve my problems - this page offers some good enhancements for Moodle's query language but I think that even with good query, you get bad results.
- good results should be surely served directly from the small textbox - with no need to go to advanced page
Regards, Borek.
Many people do seem to find the Moodle search useful, if not perfect.
Martin would probably be glad to get either a donation earmarked for improving the search (although I think most would agree that it's better than it used to be) -OR- code that implements a better search.
If I could write a better search algorithm than Google, I'd be a billionaire.