Blog Search Is Also Done Different
Posted at 11:27 PM
Something I forgot to mention in that last post about all the recent site changes is that blog search is now done via Google rather than implemented with MySQL. Which is a good thing for two reasons:
I’m not really using a database for the blog anymore. Well, nothing more sophisticated than the file system on my ISP’s server. So there’s no MySQL-style pre-calculated text index with which to leverage.
Everybody uses Google anyway and — let’s be honest — they prefer it because it produces better results. Especially when its index is current. And it looks like Google’s ‘bot crawled these pages within the last 24 hours because a search for “Christmas” finds that last post.
Of course, Google may always lag a bit on updating their index of my site but, lucky for you, I’m not prolific enough here for that to really matter. Just more justification for my laziness.
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