Who You Calling A Jesse?

A few minutes ago I made the switch in the searches over to the new tri-search (UWdir, keywords, google). Over 800 unique queries were made over the past week on the beta run and only a handful of emails were sent. I hope people like the new search. It will be considered ‘done until the next version’ tomorrow ;) A big thanks to Areeb Shams (Co-op student that worked for me last term), his hard work is really what created this search. I just tweaked it for a couple weeks.

The major change with this search is that the new search brings back the keyword database. People really seemed to have missed that and given the confusion for some that Google can bring, its good to have it back. Plus there are no choices to miss, no more ‘how do I search for people’ email I hope.

• search cache – speeds things up, allows us to track queries in the future
• UWdir results refined – removed the userid’s, id numbers, bolded names, and got rid of some other junk.
• Google API – SOAP is good, hopefully take full advantage of it in the near future
• Keyword search – people have requested it return but we had to rebuild, it is back! and folks with UWdir access can submit changes.

• faster search, seems UWdir is really slowing it down – that and/or the Google API
• keyword API

…and we are getting about 15-20 queries a minute right now. Should be interesting.