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DotNetNuke and Search Usability

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 | DotNetNuke, Improving Code, Programming, Search Engines, Search Modules, Search Results, Usability, Web Development, Websites | No Comments

DotNetNuke recently added what they call a “feature” to their implementation of a search bar: the ability to search the web or search your web site.

This poses a couple problems:

  1. It can confuse users with unnecessary options
  2. It’s pretty meaningless.

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Modifying DotNetNuke Search and Improving the Results

Saturday, July 14th, 2007 | Artemis Solutions Group, Custom Development, DotNetNuke, Improving Code, Open Source, SEO, Search Engines, Search Modules, Search Results, Stored Procedure Improvement, Usability, Web Development, Websites, Work Stuff | 8 Comments

Recently, I modified the Stored Procedure named “GetSearchResults” to improve the results pages in DotNetNuke web sites. Here is my explanation from the DNN forums.

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