I didn't see any mention of this in my search (point me in the right direction if I missed it), so I'll bring it up.

Much like being able to add meta data to our home nodes, could the search functionality within monks be improved by adding keyword meta data to the nodes themselves? For instance, take this node:

Although the title is "Finding the Distance between longitude and latitude pairs", some good meta data to add to this node might include: 

<!-- keyword:Great Circle Distance-->
<!-- keyword:Haversine-->
<!-- keyword:Law of cosines-->
<!-- keyword:Geographical Distance-->

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This would allow an author to include relevant, relational words to his text without having to try to use them all in a sentence. <Tongue in cheek/>, and it allows a searcher to narrow the scope of his/her search (Title and Keywords), with out limiting the results as drastically.

Thoughts?

C-.

In reply to Searchable keyword meta data in nodes by cacharbe

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