Locally indexed search about labnotebook HOT 7 CLOSED

Or consider marran's custom Jekyll solution (also JQuery based): http://www.marran.com/tech/jquery-full-text-indexing-on-jekyll/

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Marran's solution looks more resource-conscious and scalable then tipue-search. Indextank.com is gone though code lives on in other repositories, but strange to have to query against an external API just to perform a local search.

Cannot get Marran's html/css configured properly to generate search results box. Should consider modifying anyway such that results return on a separate page?

Posted query to Marran's disqus

Testing on site-search branch.

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Difficulties with Marran solution:

• Page titles aren't indexed. Ideally they should be given higher weight
• Phrases aren't associated

A better solution?: https://github.com/slashdotdash/jekyll-lunr-js-search

My SO question on this

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slashdotdash/jekyll-lunr-js-search#1

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Javascript for lunr search works following pull request #68

Unfortunately lunr makes page load times for search take a very long time. @slashdotdash is considering dropping stop words, which should greatly improve performance.

Meanwhile, available at http://carlboettiger.info/search.html, but remaining search uses Marran's method.

• Need to adjust Marran's method to add titles. Should possibly up-weight the occurrence of terms in title text.

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Need to add search plugin credits to info / README.md

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Dropped back to google search after all that. Stemming search means that we cannot match phrases, which I often want. Google is reasonably accurate and simple. Detailed exhaustive search can always just grep against the _posts directory anyway.

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