Free text search to find documents

ronaldtse commented 5 years ago

https://www.algolia.com/for-open-source

rutgerg commented 5 years ago

We use Algolia for SchedJoules for text search. Works great for this purpose and less steeper learning curve than eg Elastic

wsdwl commented 5 years ago

Easiest and effortless way still is to start a google search limited to our domain

e.g. https://www.google.de/search?q=abuse+site%3Acalendarstandards.org or https://www.google.de/search?q=UID+site%3Acalconnect.org

calendarstandards.org will soon be moved to standards.calconnect.org and then all our sites are seached using the second term

rutgerg commented 5 years ago

If the goal is the have people actually find and use standards via this site then sending them to Google is not a solution and looks really unprofessional.

ronaldtse commented 5 years ago

I prefer real search like Algolia, but I literally received this email from them minutes ago:

Thanks for your interest in DocSearch.

We had a look at the link you provided and it seems that your website is not compliant with our policy. We only offer DocSearch for documentations of technical projects and, unless we missed something, it seems like your website does not fit this criteria. It seems to aggregate external documentation instead of having its own content.

We're really sorry to have to turn down your request, but we are receiving so many applications everyday that we now have to give priority to compliant websites. We hope you understand.

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean Algolia is not for you. Algolia offers a free community plan that you can use for your website along with our API clients. You could also try to run DocSearch on your own, the whole code is open-source.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

ronaldtse commented 5 years ago

I just replied and let's see what happens.

CalConnect / standards.calconnect.org

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