Some of you may have already noticed it (well, I know 321 of you have clicked it anyway ), I put a little something together to use Google to search the MacRumors Forums; called MRoogle (I know it's stupid, sorry!). I've pretty much finished it today (while I was at work, when I should have actually been working ), and I've just put it online. Take a look and tell me what you think. Are there any other cool features of Google that I could build in to it? Currently you can do All word, Any word, and Exact phrase searches MRoogle
This is a really good idea. What is the chance it can be put next to the search already in the forums? I don't really know how editable vBulletin is.
sweet, ill be using it, just out of curiousity, i usually search by thread title, anyway to add that in there or is that only a feature of vbulliten?
Something to bare in mind. Google is only as good as it's last cache of the site. So this will not be 100% up to date, while vBulletins one will. What this will be good for is finding things you remember having seen a while ago, or checking to see if something has already been talked about in the past.
Thats why I think it should go next to the search already up there (if possible). It shouldn't replace it.
True, but that's threads in the past 90 days that have mentioned her. Do a search by posts in the past year (like the servers need the extra load, I know) and it's at least 500 (that's all it will show). Perhaps the Google search is also time-limited somehow, or only has access to recent posts, since it started crawling the site. Edit: e - don't get me wrong, it's a sweet tool to have, especially since it's fast and doesn't bog the servers down using it. And it's a nice "mirror" of the real Google experience. Now, if only it would open the Google results in a frame, so we could continue to enter searches in the MRoogle form.
You are searching by thread, and not by posts. So you get a result of 120 threads containing the word "Keira" even though within those threads could be 10,000 posts referencing Keira. When searching, have it show results as posts.
Probably right. I guess you need to write something for Safari to replace the Google search bar with a MRoogle search bar
Sorry to dig up and old thread but... Nearly 6 months later, and 6,500 visits, looks like someone must be making use of it after all!
Yes... you've reduced the number of already-answered-but-didn't-search-for-it newbie question threads by... er... are you sure it's had 6,500 visits?
How do you say it? I'm stuck. I want to advertise by word of mouth to all my friends about the greatness that is MRoogle. So is it M-R-oogle? M-Roogle? Or simply a slurred MRoogle, perhaps MuhRoogle?
It's the only thing I use to search the forums. I have it in my bookmarks bar under the Macrumors bat.
It really should be accompanying the regular search feature so that newbies can find it easier. Please don't fix that typo. It is a typo, right?