By jsmccul1 on

I figured out how to add a search box to my website, and I went to search settings and re-indexed the site like it told me to. My search still is yielding no results though unless I type in a major category like Sports or News (it's a news site). Is there any way to make the search engine better? Thanks in advance

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vm’s picture

vm commented

please try to mark your threads with which version of drupal is in use.

did you run cron.php after indexing the content in adminsiter -> search settings ?

jsmccul1’s picture

jsmccul1 commented

sorry i am on Drupal 5, and no...how exactly do you do that?

lyricnz’s picture

lyricnz commented

As described in the install guide, you need to add a scheduled job to call /cron.php on your site every hour or so. This is documented at http://drupal.org/cron

In the meantime, you can just run it yourself (with your webbrowser - open /cron.php on your website). This will index a certain amount of content (100 items by default).

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CleanCutRogue commented

Something I usually recommend to newbies - use http://drupal.org/project/poormanscron - it's a module that runs cron for you. I like it because it's easier to use than the many annoying interfaces web space providers give you to set up the cryptic cron jobs.