I have set up a google custom search engine for my site and it works really well. I have also set up refinements for different categories in the site. E.g.
Cups,
Saucers,
Plates
When I do a search using the api or search box, for "China Cups" google returns good results, along with refinement labels for All, Cups, Saucers and Plates.
However, clicking on Saucers or Plates refinement tab returns zero results. How can I prevent google from returning refinement tabs that will yield zero results for that search?
PS: Even if I adjust max top refinements to 2, google will return "All, Cups, Saucers" as refinements. Saucer refinement will still yield zero results.
Yes the refinements simply display possible filters, without checking the content. In contrast, facets include the value count, which can be zero if that would be helpful to the users.
The Google Custom Search is giving you filters, so you would have to do your own pre-flight counting.
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I'm using OpenSearchServer to provide search functionality on a web site. I want to crawl all pages on the site for links to follow but I want to exclude some pages from the index. I can't work out how to do this.
Specifically the website includes a shop that has its own product search and I am keeping this search for products and categories. The product pages have URLs like http://www.thesite/p/123 so I don't want to include any page like this in the search results. However some product pages reference background info pages and I want these to be included in the search index.
The problem I have is that the filter has no effect on the results - it doesn't filter out the /p/ and /c/ results. If I change the filter by unticking the negative box I get no results so it seems to be either the contents of the field or the filter criteria that is causing the problem.
I've tried adding a negative filter to the default query called search in the Query > Filter tab on the index with url:"http://www.thesite/p/*"
but it seems that wildcards are not supported for query filters although they are supported for Crawler > Exclusion list filters.
I've tried adding a new field called urlField in Schema > Fields and populating it using an analyzer configured using the Whitespace Tokenizer and a regular expression (http://www.thesite/(c|p)/). When I use the Test button it seems to generate two tokens for my test URL http://www.thesite/p/123:
http://www.thesite/p/
p
I'd hoped to be able to use the first one in a Query > Filter to exclude all the shop results and optionally be able to use the p (for product) or c (for category) if I need to search the product pages sometime in the future.
The urlShop field in the schema is set up as follows:
Indexed: yes
Stored: no (because I don't need the field back, just want to be able to filter on it)
TermVector: No
Analyzer: urlShop
Copy of: url
I've added urlFilter:"http://www.thesite/p/" to Query > Filters with the negative box ticked.
This seems to have no effect on the results when I use the default renderer.
To see whether it affects the returned results I unticked the negative box in the query filter I get no results in the default renderer. This leads me to believe that the urlShop field is not being populated but I'm not sure how to check this directly.
I would like to know whether there is an easier way to do this but if my approach makes sense in the context of OpenSearchServer please can you help me identify what's wrong?
The website is running under IIS and OpenSearchServer will be configured on the same server running in Tomcat.
Finally figured this out...
Go to query and hit edit for your configured query. Then go to the filters tab. Add a query filter like this:
urlExact:"http://myurltoexclude*"
Check the "negative" box. Click add.
Now make sure to click "save in the tiny little button on the right hand side. This is the part I missed. The URLS are still in the DB and crawl, but at least they aren't returned in results.
I'm trying to create a faceted search page in Drupal 7 and it's almost done.
These are the modules I used for faceted search.
*Facet API *Search API *Database search *Search Facets *Search Views *Entity API
I created a page with views for faceted search. There are blocks for filtering etc. Here, the problem is the search page shows all results (entries) default, without filtering. If I apply some filter criteria it correctly shows the results, no problem here.
What I want is to show nothing default, an empty result area in the search page I created.
Have a look at Show facet filter even if there is no result. There's a patch available that let's you show facets on "no results found" search.
From what I understand that may be what you're looking for…
I have done the similar thing using this article.
Only difference is that i have exposed filters rather then facet filters. But this will give you idea how to do so.
Hope this will help.
I have setup a search scope for the current members of a website (a "Phone book" type of search). It is setup to automatically suggest limiting search results by people's jobtitles, adding something like "jobtitle:Manager" to the search query.
For single words ("Manager", "Supervisor", etc.) this works fine, but as soon as the title contains more than one word ("Managing Supervisor"), it returns zero search results. My gut feeling is that it's because when the url is entered as jobtitle:Managing Supervisor, it limits results by jobtitle = Managing, and then Supervisor simply becomes a generic search term.
I tried testing with manually added quotation marks, jobtitle:"Supervising Manager", but they are removed when I land on the search page and the effects are the same.
Is there any way to allow limiting of search results by fields with multiple words?
This is running SharePoint 2007.
Did you try adding a + between the words?
Have a bit of a difficult question which as far as I can see, no one has really managed to fix yet.
Here's the scenario. Sharepoint 2010 EnterPrise Search Centre.
I've created a custom Search Results Page. I want people who type any word in the Search box to only display results where the Value provided by the user matches with a specific Managed Search Property.
Now I know a user can search for People with specific criteria by entering for example
Continent:Europe in the actual Search Box. Sharepoint will refresh the page with the following added to the Query String: k=Continent:Europe and the results will only show people who are from Europe.
So my question is : How can I fix this so that the user does not have to enter the Continent:Europe in the Search box and can just type Europe?
Thanks
One option is to create your own webpart that acts as the search box and replaces the standard one with your custom search box. The advantage of this is that you can more tightly control the user interface and then set up the query passed to the server (with the "k" parameter). You could prepend "Continent:" before the search term entered to help narrow the search.
Another use for this is to append * onto any search term because the People search does include partial words by default.
We did this on one site to simplify the input and allow users to search with one text box (without the advanced features) and then users can use the refinements to narrow the search.
I am implementing a solution in Solr where I have a lot of values in my facet.
As opposed to displaying a long list of values(facets) down the side of my page I want to display the top 10. And also have one for other.
For instance I would be faceting on Nationality.
So, I do not want to have a list of every nationality, Nor do I want a "see all" button.
What I require is the top 10 nationalitys and then "Other".
When a user clicks on other, it facets on this?
This is quite easy in Solr.. All you need to do is add a
&facet.limit=10
e.g.
http://solrserver:8080/solr/select&version=2.2&q=solr&start=0&rows=0&indent=on&facet=on&facet.field= nationality&facet.limit=10
to your request and you should be able to limit the results.
For more information you can check out my blog post on faceting in solr:
http://www.craftyfella.com/2010/01/faceting-and-multifaceting-syntax-in.html
or the solr wiki here:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters#facet.limit