Leo Blog Post Critique: Search Bar

[Juan]

Here his post:

https://www.actualized.org/insights/how-to-search-this-blog
 

My critique would be: you said the search function is unnecessary, ironically it’s BEING TOO NECESSARY for people who look out your blog (myself included). Sure I’m aware that here in the forum somebody organized your blog posts but, for new comers and non forum members, many probably gave up already. My advice would be, if possible of course, update your site then or just add the search bar since it seems MANY are complaining about it. 

And even if you gave us how to search your blog posts by using google, give it some time like a year that you receive new people coming and just don’t know about that cuz obviously you’re gonna keep posting new stuff so that info it will be lost. So yea, I think that update will be a game changer for people who are studying your work. 

Edited March 30 by Juan

[Juan]

@Leo Gura

[r0ckyreed]

I agree. There was a post he made a while ago about contemplation, and I tried to look it up the way he told me and the page doesn’t exist. You have to type the exact title of the blog in correctly, and if you don’t know the entire name of the blog post, then you are screwed. That way of searching doesn’t do keywords, it goes off of the full title. There definitely needs to be a search bar. I have been using @FlyingLotus post with the links to blog posts to help me out.

[Yimpa]

Have you checked out this gem?

 

[Yimpa]

6 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

You have to type the exact title of the blog in correctly, and if you don’t know the entire name of the blog post, then you are screwed. That way of searching doesn’t do keywords, it goes off of the full title.

That’s not how it works from my experience. Nonetheless, I do find limitations with the Google search. For example, I wanted to search for The Hairy Frogfish. I initially typed “site:actualized.org/insights/ frog”. Google gave me a few blog posts where Leo mentioned frog in the body of the blog posts. However, it did not populate the Frogfish blog post. So I had to alter my search to from “frog” to “frogfish”.

Keep in mind that Google will obviously be implementing more AI technology in their search in the future, so let’s see how it’ll change and improve in the next 5-10 years. 

Edited March 31 by Yimpa

[Yimpa]

@r0ckyreed also, make sure you’re putting a space at the end. So, instead of “site:actualized.org/insights/frogfish”, you need to type “site:actualized.org/insights/ frogfish”

Edited March 31 by Yimpa

[r0ckyreed]

4 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

That’s not how it works from my experience. Nonetheless, I do find limitations with the Google search. For example, I wanted to search for The Hairy Frogfish. I initially typed “site:actualized.org/insights/ frog”. Google gave me a few blog posts where Leo mentioned frog in the body of the blog posts. However, it did not populate the Frogfish blog post. So I had to alter my search to from “frog” to “frogfish”.

Keep in mind that Google will obviously be implementing more AI technology in their search in the future, so let’s see how it’ll change and improve in the next 5-10 years. 

Oh thanks! I found it. I realized I had to put a space after the /insights/ Keyword

[r0ckyreed]

2 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

@r0ckyreed also, make sure you’re putting a space at the end. So, instead of “site:actualized.org/insights/frogfish”, you need to type “site:actualized.org/insights/ frogfish”

Thanks!

[Leo Gura]

There's quite a big difference between a frog and a frogfish.

Like the difference between a test and a testicle.

Edited March 31 by Leo Gura

[Yimpa]

I’m gonna go study 

 

[Juan]

@Leo Gura For real the search bar it’s something we use I believe in ALL WEBSITES and it’s very intuitive. 

[Davino]

45 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Like the difference between a test and a testicle

Lmao