[DOCS-9296] Docs search could be (way) better Created: 09/Nov/16 Updated: 11/Jul/17 Resolved: 11/Jul/17 |
|
| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Documentation |
| Component/s: | None |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | Dmitry Ryabtsev | Assignee: | Kay Kim (Inactive) |
| Resolution: | Duplicate | Votes: | 6 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Attachments: |
|
||||||||
| Issue Links: |
|
||||||||
| Participants: | |||||||||
| Days since reply: | 6 years, 31 weeks, 1 day ago | ||||||||
| 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:
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. |