[DOCS-9296] Docs search could be (way) better Created: 09/Nov/16  Updated: 11/Jul/17  Resolved: 11/Jul/17

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
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Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Dmitry Ryabtsev Assignee: Kay Kim (Inactive)
Resolution: Duplicate Votes: 6
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 Description   

A lot of people are getting frustrated with the built-in docs search. The reality is that most of the time it is more efficient to use google to search on our website.

Consider this example - I want to quickly find the article on the $lookup aggregation operator. I expect this article to appear at the top of the result set.

First I try to search on "lookup" - the article is not there:

Then I try to search on "$lookup" - still no luck:

Then I try searching on "$lookup" quoted - no luck:

Finally, I use google.com to search on a single word $lookup and I get the article at the very top of the results:

There is definitely a space of improvement in regards to search.



 Comments   
Comment by Kay Kim (Inactive) [ 11/Jul/17 ]

We're replacing google's search in docs with our own.

Comment by Ryan Schwartz [ 10/Nov/16 ]

kay.kim - Moving to Documentation ticket.

Comment by Andrey Brindeyev [ 09/Nov/16 ]

Here's what I'm using in Alfred as custom websearch:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adocs.mongodb.com%20{query}&btnI

Once configured, the rest is simple: press your favorite Alfred key, enter "md $lookup", hit Enter. There is a good chance that you'll be redirected straight to it. Please note that link is "I'm feeling lucky" so it will get you to the first result most of the time.

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