An Issue With Searching

[frankko]

When you search the hints archive, the results pages auto-highlight the words you search for. That's kind of cool, but the highlighting not only changes the background color of the word, it changes the word to the case you used when searching. Consider the following example:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030110063041629&query=SAFARI+DEBUG

It changes

% defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

to

% defaults write com.apple.SAFARI IncludeDEBUGMenu 1

And that's bad, as that code is case-sensitive.

Just FYI. I don't know if there's a way to get it to change the color without changing the case. But it's something you folks should be aware of. It's probably why there's a comment in that post by 'eno', suggesting that there's an error in the original story.

[griffman]

The Geeklog team is aware of the problem, and it will be fixed in an update to the search engine due out shortly.

For now, when you go to an individual story found through the search results, highlight the URL and remove anything after the article number (story=203020203...). Copy and paste that URL back in the address bar, and you get the article without highlighting.

Not ideal, I know, but the new engine should be here within a couple weeks.

-rob.