[THIN] Re: Citrites' Search Launch (HTTP://CITRITES.ORG)

Excellent!  Great job Sam!  Folks this is work bookmarking and adding to your 
favorites!
 
Jim Kenzig 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Sam Johnston <samj@xxxxxxxx>
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:36:09 PM
Subject: [THIN] Citrites' Search Launch (HTTP://CITRITES.ORG)

Morning all,

I've just finished putting the final touches on Citrites' Search 
(http://citrites.org) which supersedes the existing Citrite.org ( 
http://citrite.org) search function, combining Google AJAX Search, Google Co-op 
Search and Google Enterprise Search (for those detected as internal users only, 
sorry) to give an extremely fast and flexible tabbed interface. citrites.org 
(plural) was registered about a month ago to complement citrite.org with a 
search service but until now the existing sitesearch functionality did not 
provide enough flexibility (the old form at http://citrite.org/search/ is 
clunky at best).

Citrites' Search currently searches the following information:

Citrix Sites: Content from scores of Citrix related sites, including citrix.com 
and citrite.org.
Support: The official Citrix Knowledge Center site: support.citrix.com
Forums: Various forums including the official forums at 
support.citrix.com/forums.
Citrites: Blogs of Citrix employees and alumni (Citrites' Blogs).
Citrix.com: All citrix.com content via Google
Blog: All blogs via Google's Blog Search
News: All news via Google News search.
Web: The entire web via traditional Google.
Video: All video content via Google Video search.
Rather than reinvent the wheel I've plugged Jim's excellent co-op search ( 
http://www.f1u.com/) into the left panel in place of my own and have a number 
of other custom coop searches driving the various tabs (the cooperative nature 
of this product is really quite powerful). I also have refinements set up to 
isolate documentation, etc. but unfortunately these are not exposed through the 
AJAX interface as yet. 

If you're running Mozilla Firefox 2 or Internet Explorer 7 (as you should be) 
you can integrate Citrites' Search seamlessly into the browser by clicking on 
the link (an OpenSearch Description) at http://citrites.org/opensearch/

I'll be promoting this internally too (primarily for use by Citrix Technical 
Support) and the more people using and contributing (even if just via feedback) 
the better it will be. I'm convinced that decent search is going to change the 
way we work internally and there's no reason it shouldn't help customers and 
partners too, 

Kind regards,

Sam

-- 
Sam Johnston (http://citrite.org/blogs/samj/)
Escalation Engineer
Citrix Systems Ireland

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