Hopefully a Wordpress plugin is in the pipeline. This would be a no-brainer any Wordpress site if setup is as simple as installing and configuring a plugin.
There is! It is functional already, just a little more testing before we release it.
Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck
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#22Matt and Quin are two of the most talented people I have had the pleasure of working with. They have so much potential as entrepreneurs. I am proud to be Swiftype investor :) Great idea and great team.
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#23Congrats, this looks fantastic!
Quick feature suggestion: Can we replace/ignore specific text in the titles? I'm indexing a site with "Page title - Site Name" as the title of each search result, and manually editing 100+ pages is no fun :)
Alternately, you could compare the window title and the h1 list (or against other page titles) and automatically adjust accordingly.
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#24> On top of that, Swiftype also allows site owners to pin and unpin different items to the top of their search results. Obviously a great feature for the site owner. But I'm sure if that's a useful feature for the users. At least Google's results are objective, and wouldn't give me the page generates the most revenue as the first link.
I hear your point, but in this case, "objective" from Google means more like "random".
Google has invested heavily in relevance for their main web search, which is obviously excellent. But they've totally ignored their site search product and if you try it, you'll find that the relevance is quite poor.
Hopefully, sites will use Swiftype's controls not just to maximize short-term revenue, but to improve relevance and user experience. After all, with Google site search, Google can only use public relevance signals like inbound links to rank pages. But on your site, you have lots of internal data about which pages are most important and you can use that to steer people towards the pages they're probably looking for.
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#25Congrats, this looks fantastic! Quick feature suggestion: Can we replace/ignore specific text in the titles? I'm indexing a site with "Page title - Site Name" as the title of each search result, and manually editing 100+ pages is no fun :) Alternately, you could compare the window title and the h1 list (or against other page titles) and automatically adjust accordingly.
Another quick suggestion: Show a tally of how many pages have been indexed in the admin panel. Cheers!
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#26Congrats, this looks fantastic! Quick feature suggestion: Can we replace/ignore specific text in the titles? I'm indexing a site with "Page title - Site Name" as the title of each search result, and manually editing 100+ pages is no fun :) Alternately, you could compare the window title and the h1 list (or against other page titles) and automatically adjust accordingly.
Another quick suggestion: Show a tally of how many pages have been indexed in the admin panel. Cheers!
Yes and yes. We do a fair amount of post-processing on the pages to handle things like boilerplate text pruning. Hopefully, it should catch what you mentioned. That said, we have bulk modification tools in the works.
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#27One design suggestion:
I watched the video, I'm intrigued, now I want to use Swiftype -- but there is no search form on your homepage.
Searching your own site would be easiest, but I realize there isn't much content yet, so not the best demo.
What about using the logos of sites using Swiftype to activate a search form that actually takes you to their search results? "Trusted by these companies, give Swiftype a test..."
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tested the Parse.com documentation ( https://www.parse.com/docs/search#stq=xcode ) and found some problems with swiftype. When searching via Chrome, I kept getting a blank content area with no search results. I did some digging (thinking that the issue might be that I reject 3rd party cookies) and I found the problem: https://swiftype.com/embed.js wasn't loading. I went to view this script in my browser and got an…
We're looking into this. I'll try to reproduce it and get it fixed shortly. Thanks!
If it's not to late, I would move the embed script to a subdomain so you can host the script from where ever you like (cdn or other host).
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#29One design suggestion: I watched the video, I'm intrigued, now I want to use Swiftype -- but there is no search form on your homepage. Searching your own site would be easiest, but I realize there isn't much content yet, so not the best demo. What about using the logos of sites using Swiftype to activate a search form that actually takes you to their search results? "Trusted by these companies, give Swiftype a test..…
Both of those are great suggestions. We'll likely make those changes soon. Thanks for the thoughts!
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