Exclude certain pages from search - best way?
There are a few pages on my site that shouldn't show up on search results. I'm not trying to restrict by node type or by user role or anything like that - I just want a small set of pages not to show up in searches.
I ran across the Restricted Search module (aka SearchBlock) http://drupal.org/project/search_block and I guess there is a development version for D6, but no officially released version. It looks like it would do what I want.
I'm a little leery of non-released modules - is there any simple alternative?
I'm tempted to just use PHPMyAdmin to just remove all entries from the search_index table that have an sid that matches the nodes that I don't want indexed. Would this corrupt the search/index system? Would those nodes just get reindexed at the next cron run? And for that matter, if I want those nodes to be indexed in the future, how would I do that?
Thanks! -Steve
I'm still hunting for a way
I'm still hunting for a way to do this. In researching, I see lots of discussion (and some possible solutions) if one wants to exclude a certain type of node from searches - but no way to exclude particular nodes.
I don't know how to create a module, but I think I could maybe put together a shell script that would have a list of node IDs that I don't want indexed - and then the script could execute a MYSQL command once a day or something to delete any entries in search_index for those nodes.
I'd love to get some feedback about whether something like this is likely to kill my Drupal search/index system as a whole?