Wednesday, August 03, 2005

The site is now searchable

We've successfully installed a site specific search engine onto Descendants of Mandi using a free search company called FusionBot. It is now possible to search the site using keywords and family names. Because it is a free service, the FusionBot spider indexed about 250 pages of our site, weighted by the page's relationship/pathway to our index page. Because our family is very large, this means that quite likey, all names have not been indexed--although I believe a large cross section have been captured. If you search and don't get a result on your name, try someone else higher up in your branch of the family tree. If you don't appear, but would like to, send us a picture and we will add you to the slide show on the welcome page, all the slide names are searchable. Doing this will make your name searchable.

We've also added a second search box powered by Freefind which has done a more thorough indexing of our site's pages. If the fusionbot box doesn't pull up your name, then try the other one.

So, take a minute and check out the two search boxes located on the index page and the welcome page and give it a try. Send us a comment to let us know how they work for you.

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