I'm posting about the checkboxes idea. We could do it with checkboxes, or a pulldown menu or links.

Each section of the site could then be virtually segmented into subtopics and maybe become more self-organizing. It could reduce the number of repeated newbie questions (well maybe). It might be an interesting way to preserve good bits, if this doesn't encroach on the Editors' territory.

This is similar to how I added a products page to a search engine here by making a multiple keyword search (like "millimeter or microwave or wave or antenna" for millimeter wave products) as you can see from the HTML source. The terms were chosen by working backward to cover as many pages as possible, and then a multiple keyword search is run on the inverted index.

I'm a little worried that it might really slow the site down though if Super Search is used without changes, since searching would become a major part of navigation. We might need to have more programming done and a new keyword index added in that case. Would like to hear from anyone with experience working on the search facility at PM.