SEARCH!..

Ridiculously fast, accurate, relevant, full-site, audience aware search is here. Go add it to your site today!

As noted on the entry over at the Squarespace service blog — it’s completely impossible to replicate results like this using an embedded 3rd party search service (Google, etc.).

Comments

[Resonate]

Well lets hope tomorrow comes quick enough, im well itching to fully test this new module as it was the first & possibly only module i noticed was missing in squarespace. As a result i opted for the google co-op search engine but this sounds as if this is a 'MUST HAVE' within everyones squarespace site.

Great work guys

Regards, Resonate
http://resonate.co.nr

[christi]

Hurray! I just took my Google search down after three days because it wasn't working - surprise!

[Colby Bower]

Awesome, as always a flawless execution of an often flawed feature. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Lisa]

Awesome! Great search function and so very easy to set up. Thank you.

[Mike Smith]

Finally! Thank you, Squarespace. I have been waiting for this forever.

[Sienna L.]

Excellent feature I love how customiziable this is, excellent addition!

[Julian]

You have made me very very happy as well. Looks and works great. A few wee requests ... could you make Amazon book pages searchable as well? I have a fair amount of content that involves reviewing books, and would like it to be findable.

The only other stuff I miss from my atomz/freefind/google days is the ability to find linked-to files that reside in SS storage. That said, it did have the tendency to clutter search results, so I can live without it.

Your search algorithms seem to be doing a lovely job ranking results with discussion posts and replies showing up below proper journal entries and pages. If that's just been random good luck for me so far, perhaps you'd consider allowing us to specify weighting? I know, advanced and potentially confusing feature, but handy ...

Lastly, I'm curious as to handling of boolean search terms, fuzziness, etc ... how does that work here? Maybe I'll just go play with it a bit more. You do seem to be doing some stemming - nifty.

[Stevem]

Thanks fellas, a great inovation. Very helpful on sites with a large database. Great work.

[Amy P]

The search block is too long for my sidebar. Is it adjustable?

It WORKS well, though, much better than the other search indexes I've used.

[Jeff Barson]

First the formbuilder and now this... You're making me a happy man.

[Team Squarespace]

I've wanted search in Squarespace for so very long -- but I wanted to make sure we knocked it out of the park, so to say. I think we've done that with this implementation.

This really speaks to what we're trying to accomplish here overall -- which is to provide you with software services that would be impossible to replicate in a shared hosting account -- along with ease of use and reliability that would make it insane to even consider another approach :)

From the comments above:

1) Sizing: Note that the search results and such are very explicitly tagged in the HTML. You can use CSS to adjust the visibility / size of the various elements. If you're seeing a really wide search box, clear your browser cache -- you're using the old stylesheet :)

2) Relevancy/Weighting: A lot of work was put into making sure the results come up in a natural order regarding posts vs. pages vs. comments, etc. Squarespace is indeed using various weights and boosts to ensure this occurs, and there is also some really neat lexical analysis going on to ensure that things like "xml-rpc" and "xml rpc" return relevant results in the face of various hyphenation schemes. I'm not sure we'll be exposing the weighting schemes in an adjustable interface any time soon (though it is programmatically possible) -- is there a reason you'd like access to it? :)

[Meredith James]

Love it! Works to a tea. Glad to get rid of the messy google search.

Thanks guys!

[susan]

I feel like this feature sets me apart from others. I'd call it elegant all around. Thank you for creating a quality function that's great to look at too, if that's possible.

[Melissa]

It looks and works great - except for one thing. I can't restrict the search to just my main journal content. I've configured it in the category and module options to only search journal entries, but for any search I get results from both comments and other pages within my site. Is anyone else having the same problem?

[Brian Bommarito]

I have to say, quite impressed with the search. In fact, I had just signed up for a trial the day before it was implemented.

Like many have said, it works better than just about anything out there, including some of the more costly CMSs. It's instant, which is great, very quick and manages to work across all the content, though I have yet to test it on the forums, still trying to figure out how to make those work best.

[Team Squarespace]

Melissa,

I can't reproduce that with a cursory test -- but we'd be happy to look into it. Use the support ticketing interface to report a bug -- we naturally can't conduct support on the blog :)

[Michael Longfellow]

Amazing. Functional. Beautifully simple. You guys really nail it, every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Q: Is there a way to change the size (smaller) of the search box?

[Jessa]

Thank you! Finally! Very much appreciated.

[Mike Power]

Great news! I just checked my feature request ticket for a search facility, it was back in Dec 2 2004 :) I had to give up my commercial search option when it reached $250 a year! It would cost around $450 a year now. So, even though it's been a long wait it was well worth it. Thanks again for exceeding expectations. Just one thing. In Firefox for Mac the button is square (which I like anyway) but is not properly aligned. It's fine in Camino, Opera and Safari. No big deal but is there any way of tweaking it?

[The Colonel]

Thank You for the search feature its appreciated and very useful. As the information expands it was becoming challenging to find specific items.

The search feature works very well, and makes it easier for a visitor, and the writer.

A BIG THANK YOU,
The Colonel

[Simon]

Wanted to add my thanks too - not just for the search, but for the FAQ - which was EXACTLY what I was needing right now.

[Huib]

I am happy with the new search function. It works OK. But it doesn't take into account the Amazon Book pages. Could it work for them as well?

[Daniel James Devine]

I've been eagerly anticipating this function. One of the great things about SquareSpace is that it's constantly being improved--with no inconvenience to the users! Awesome work guys.

[VoiceBrazil]

Anthony, you and your team are awesome! Thank you for creating such a nice company. Your hard work behind the scenes makes us look great!

We are about to go live first week of June and we can not wait to have the Search feature added.

Thank you so much!

Annie Ramos
VoiceBrazil.com

[Nikos Valchos]

Thank you from Greece . It is a great enhancement .