Powerful New Custom Search Engine

February 28, 2008 | Filed Under Blog 

After some discussion in the chat room last night, it was obvious that we needed a more powerful and relevant search engine here at TheWood Whisperer.com. So I looked into it and found a pretty cool solution. Whenever you visit our Power Search page (the link will always be in the navbar above), you have the option of using three powerful custom search engines. The first allows you to search the entire Wood Whisperer site, just as before. The second one I am REALLY excited about. It allows you to search all of the major woodworking forums in one shot. Looking for information on a technique, or a plan you saw posted months ago? Just type in a few keywords and you should find what you’re looking for within seconds. The third option is to search the woodworking blogs. This is a search that includes all of the sites within The Wood Whisperer Network! How cool is that?!?!

Now the search engines are powered by Google and unfortunately there are a few minor bugs here and there. But the search is still functional and accurate and should help you find exactly what you are looking for. So give it a shot and SEARCH your heart out!

Comments

7 Responses to “Powerful New Custom Search Engine”

  1. dryhter on February 28th, 2008 8:02 pm

    Hey Marc,
    I found your site about a week or two ago. and i love it
    But I must admit I am Technology challenged. What all is going on here
    Video pod cast
    Audio pod cast
    Wed night cast
    Blog
    Web camera
    What am I missing, this is great, I want it all.
    Thanks,
    DAVE

  2. thewoodwhisperer on February 28th, 2008 8:22 pm

    Welcome to the site Dave. We do have quite a few irons in the fire here. You touched on most of the major highlights. The only major thing you may have missed is our blog directory over at http://thewoodwhisperernetwork.com

    We also have a Viewer Gallery, my personal gallery, and a Frappr map all in the right column of the blog page.

    Thanks for stopping by and if you ever have any questions and the site and the features, please feel free to email me.

  3. Carl Joseph on February 28th, 2008 9:51 pm

    Awesome search tools! Great work - this is gonna be way useful.

    So, I’ll make the first request to add a new forum to the list.
    http://www.woodworkforums.com/

    This is an Aussie forum but does have quite a few US members as well.

    Keep up the awesome work Marc.

    Cheers,
    C.

  4. thewoodwhisperer on February 28th, 2008 10:19 pm

    Added. Thanks Carl!

  5. Mattias in Durham, NC on February 29th, 2008 7:41 am

    Marc, I tried a sample search just for fun. Google “dowel” gives me: Wikipedia entry on “Dowel”, “Dowel seller A”, “Dowel seller B”, “Miller Dowel”, etc. which might be relevant if I’m looking to buy dowels. Being able to search a subset of only woodworking forums gives me: “Dowel joinery?”, “Dowel hinge on toolbox handle?”, “Long Dowels - Woodworking Talk”, etc. which are all potentially much more relevant. Woodworking blog search gives me similar, relevant results.

    Very cool… this almost takes the place of the community features I was looking for in TWW network. Now if only Google could learn some woodworking so that it could rank the results based on the clarity of articles and each doweling method’s superiority.

  6. Grant in North Branch, MN on March 2nd, 2008 12:17 pm

    Nice job once again Marc.

    This will be very useful.

    Thanks!

  7. Chad on March 2nd, 2008 11:41 pm

    A freind of mine is using Lijit, it is a simple search that solves a lot of the relevancy issues that Mattias is talking about. I use it all the time for work as I begin to search blog for other relvant data.

    It does some cool things, for example it searches the site of origin then that sites blogroll then their blogrolls and so on. The end product is a search through a network that shows only what woodworkers have had to say on the topic…not what Google thought I wanted.

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