Semantic Benefit of Drupal Gibberish When Searching Web

[Shai Gluskin-2]

Drupal Gangsters,

I mostly use Google with the modifier site:drupal.org to search Drupal's multiple sites.

Just now I forgot to put in "site:drupal.org," but the word "node" (along with other stuff) was in my search. I got great results. And, of course, the results went far beyond drupal.org sites to the wealth of information about Drupal that is increasingly housed elsewhere.

This is a case where some of Drupal's funny language is actually a good thing because it helps to return a more relevant set of results from the broadest possible search domain.

Shai

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[Thund3r box]

Yeah, hunting for drupal info can be frustrating.  My method is to usually search google first (general search), then search on drupal.org, and if still haven't found, then do your method of site:drupal.org (to narrow and see if I missed anything.)

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai@...> wrote:

Drupal Gangsters,

I mostly use Google with the modifier site:drupal.org to search Drupal's multiple sites.

Just now I forgot to put in "site:drupal.org," but the word "node" (along with other stuff) was in my search. I got great results. And, of course, the results went far beyond drupal.org sites to the wealth of information about Drupal that is increasingly housed elsewhere.

This is a case where some of Drupal's funny language is actually a good thing because it helps to return a more relevant set of results from the broadest possible search domain.

Shai

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[Matt Chapman-10]

Google used to be my sole method of searching d.o, but it has gotten
much better since Apache Solr was added.

But you're right in your observation; precision is the side-benefit of
obscurity in nomenclature.

It turns out node import module is the third google result for the word
'node', and the d.o handbook page on taxonomy is the second google
result for that word.

Matt


Shai Gluskin wrote:

> Drupal Gangsters,
>
> I mostly use Google with the modifier site:drupal.org
> <http://drupal.org> to search Drupal's multiple sites.
>
> Just now I forgot to put in "site:drupal.org <http://drupal.org>," but
> the word "node" (along with other stuff) was in my search. I got great
> results. And, of course, the results went far beyond drupal.org
> <http://drupal.org> sites to the wealth of information about Drupal
> that is increasingly housed elsewhere.
>
> This is a case where some of Drupal's funny language is actually a
> good thing because it helps to return a more relevant set of results
> from the broadest possible search domain.
>
> Shai
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[rajasekharan-2]

Google fine tunes the search results to your searching habits based on your past search keywords. It accumulates this information in your account (which I assume you were logged in when searching)

Patrick Goddard wrote:

Yeah, hunting for drupal info can be frustrating.  My method is to usually search google first (general search), then search on drupal.org, and if still haven't found, then do your method of site:drupal.org (to narrow and see if I missed anything.)

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai@...> wrote:

Drupal Gangsters,

I mostly use Google with the modifier site:drupal.org to search Drupal's multiple sites.

Just now I forgot to put in "site:drupal.org," but the word "node" (along with other stuff) was in my search. I got great results. And, of course, the results went far beyond drupal.org sites to the wealth of information about Drupal that is increasingly housed elsewhere.

This is a case where some of Drupal's funny language is actually a good thing because it helps to return a more relevant set of results from the broadest possible search domain.

Shai

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