[consulting] Semantic Benefit of Drupal Gibberish When Searching Web

Raj websweetweb at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 17:27:52 UTC 2009


Google fine tunes the search results to your searching habits based on 
your past search keywords. It accumulates this information in your 
account (which I assume you were logged in when searching)

Patrick Goddard wrote:
> Yeah, hunting for drupal info can be frustrating.  My method is to 
> usually search google first (general search), then search on 
> drupal.org <http://drupal.org>, and if still haven't found, then do 
> your method of site:drupal.org <http://drupal.org> (to narrow and see 
> if I missed anything.)
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com 
> <mailto:shai at content2zero.com>> wrote:
>
>     Drupal Gangsters,
>
>     I mostly use Google with the modifier site:drupal.org
>     <http://drupal.org> to search Drupal's multiple sites.
>
>     Just now I forgot to put in "site:drupal.org <http://drupal.org>,"
>     but the word "node" (along with other stuff) was in my search. I
>     got great results. And, of course, the results went far beyond
>     drupal.org <http://drupal.org> sites to the wealth of information
>     about Drupal that is increasingly housed elsewhere.
>
>     This is a case where some of Drupal's funny language is actually a
>     good thing because it helps to return a more relevant set of
>     results from the broadest possible search domain.
>
>     Shai
>
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