February 24, 2010
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New & Improved Search!
We’ve upgraded our search engine to support real time results and remove spammy posts!
Over the last couple months, an intrepid team of Xanga engineers (led by justin, with help from dan and jon) has completely revamped the search feature … we’ve been testing it for a while, and so now we’re announcing a new and improved Xanga search:
What’s new and improved about it?Faster - it used to take a whole day for new posts or edits to show up in search results – now it takes just minutes
Much Less Spam- search used to be riddled with posts from spammy accounts – now you should see almost no spam
Trending (beta) – we’ve also added a list of topics that Xangans have been blogging about a lot lately. We’re still working on this one, but we thought we’d add it to search results as a beta feature just so you could all check it out.We’ve got some more search updates on the way, but in the meantime please try out the new search and let us know what you think:
http://search.xanga.com/searchsite.aspx?q=olympics
Thanks!
Marc
Comments (66)
w00t! Working hard as always team. Thanks for trying to take a great site and make it even better.
YAY!!! Thank you!
Thank you, this seems great!
Awesome, much appreciated!
I just did a couple of searches, it’s pretty fast! I like the trending section too.
Me likey! Thank you!
Very cool – like the trends feature y’all are working on…and it’s nice to search more current blog posts..
A PLUS.
That’s great. But I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the one feature I desperately want is a way to stop posts I’ve already read from showing up again and again in my inbox or subs page! Time-stamping is driving me crazy.
@NikBv - Haha! You should see my most recent post.
Is there a way to search our own private blogs? Sometimes I’m trying to find something, and I may be unsure of the date.. so I have to flip through pages and pages- no fun.
Any way to search a blog.. if not, any plans to make it possible?
This is awesome 0.0
Yeah… cool.
@NikBv - I have been on xanga since 2003 and have NEVER time-stamped and many of my long time xangans don’t either. In the last maybe year or so, I’ve noticed so many time-stampers.. it’s annoying and makes them appear self absorbed. Blah. I don’t even want to add new friends anymore.
Good call on adding the trending!
Yeah
@Nina1981 - If they don’t plan on adding a xanga personal blog search feature, there are a bunch of places you can get one from. Google is one that offers an implantable module.
@NikBv - I had no idea, thanks!
@Nina1981 - No problem. Atomz is another place to go if you don’t like google.
@Nina1981 - Time stamp…? Is that where I see the same sub recent post coming up at 2 diff times? If so, then I agree with you! If someone posts at 1pm, then 4 hrs later it pops up again…very self-absorbed. And why is it that they do that?
Thanks Xanga team!
yay.
Thanks, Xanga team.
@Nina1981 - Ditto your comments re: a personal blog search option & time stamping…(Right now I just google to find things on my own blog.)
@NikBv - Is there a cost for that google search module?
@naphtali_deer - Nope. Check out google’s search module here:
http://www.google.com/cse/manage/create?
And Atomz here:
http://atomz.com/
@armnatmom - Yes! I guess they do that cause they figure some people don’t see it the first time… you know like if you have a lot of subs you might miss a post from earlier.. but the way I see it- if I care enough about you and your life, I will read your blog whether you made a post a minute ago or 14 hours ago.
Do “quotation mark” and other such search queries function correctly?
That’s great!
i didn’t even know there was a search feature in xanga! lol
and won’t google do the same thing? minus the trending
@NikBv - I can’t get either google or Atomz to configure correctly. The search on google comes up empty and it seems the Atomz bots were able to search/index my blog. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Cool.
this search area should be on every screen that which is xanga… even my homepage, my weblog page…… why do i have to go back to xanga.com everytime?
put it on this page please…
http://www.xanga.com/private/homemain.aspx
Whoa. The Xanga team still does stuff? /gasp
Thanks Xanga
Xanga #1
@NikBv - amen. and dude, no faceSpace/MyBook – oye i can’t keep up w/ this
wannna hook up? i’ll be right over
Thanks to all for doing this. It sounds like a great improvement. You guys are terrific!
What I miss is the option to search in Xanga videos, weblogs, pictures or whatever.
@NikBv - Thanks again for your follow-up help!
Thanks!
Thanks Xanga Team! You guys rock!
A Nice Blessing for All
@NikBv - Except the google codes don’t work in themes…
Props to that!
@radicalramblings - Sure they do. Both me and @naphtali_deer now have working google searches on our sites.
@radicalramblings - @NikBv - Actually, I’ve got look & feel, not themes…(I’d wondered if it would work in themes since I know there were some problems w/ Java Script working in themes.)
YAY!!
Great share! Thank you!
Thanks.
@Nina1981 - Yah i see
@fnieuwenhuis - so do I.
hey
ok
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Can’t search for pictures or videos
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hey that’s Ricky over in the picture
@fnieuwenhuis - ditto, badly missed, please return asap!!
Pinkhoneysuckle; Once again between microsoft and Xanga; you have managed to lose an entire evenings worth of my blogging. I find this to be so disturbing, for it has happened before and seems to be associated with microsoft updates. I am ready to dump Xanga, for this is so frustrating! I am very angry! Barbara Ellen Heintz, Blogger – Pinkhoneysuckle
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No offense but I think the ‘trending’ is a bad idea.
Such a nice post.waiting for more.
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