Re^3: Super Search discouraged?

For example, when I went looking for posts with "Super Search" in the title and typed "Super Search" into the searchbox, it took me straight to the Super Search page.

Unfortunately, we have just the one box doing both search & goto functionality. Separating these two would be good. As a workaround, to force a search just drop off a letter: cryp, Super Searc.

Perhaps it's just me, but my eyes immediately key on the results, semi-ignoring the surrounding text.

I don't think it's just you. Do you think bigger text would help?

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Re^4: Super Search discouraged? by blazar (Canon) on May 17, 2007 at 15:41 UTC
Unfortunately, we have just the one box doing both search & goto functionality. Separating these two would be good. Actually I find that useful: in fact I use the simple search almost exclusively to go straight to some node of which I know the title in advance, e.g. a home node. OTOH it's funny that I stumbled upon this thread clicking on Super Search the other day, since the link is implemented by name, not by id.	[reply]
Re^5: Super Search discouraged? by naikonta (Curate) on May 20, 2007 at 11:35 UTC
since the link is implemented by name, not by id I think you meant that the link you clicked the other day is presented with name as I'm definitely sure you know that every node is implemented by id and name as well. Open source softwares? Share and enjoy. Make profit from them if you can. Yet, share and enjoy!	[reply]
Re^6: Super Search discouraged? by blazar (Canon) on May 20, 2007 at 11:50 UTC
since the link is implemented by name, not by id I think you meant that the link you clicked the other day is presented with name as I'm definitely sure you know that every node is implemented by id and name as well. I think that it's the same thing, in fact I didn't write that the node is "implemented by name" (which is also sloppy as an expression, but hopefully quite understandable after all). I wrote that the link is: you even quoted that! See the additionally emphasized terms above.	[reply]
Re^4: Super Search discouraged? by wojtyk (Friar) on May 17, 2007 at 17:03 UTC
I don't think it's just you. Do you think bigger text would help? Possibly, though that's just a guess. I still feel like front page locality relative to the normal search is the way to go though. I already mentioned the radio button, which would actually be my preference. An example of this is here Another way of doing it is with the href link, like what this site does	[reply]