In release 2.5 the search functionality has undergone some major upgrade. It is now possible to search for multiple keywords, and to exclude some terms. This is all done with the standard fulltext search functionality of the mysql database engine. So version 3 databases can use this functionality. This will work directly after installation or upgrading.

But the engine had some features that require tuning. We could have tuned it for you but then the behaviour of upgrading sites would be different from what the owners are used to, and since this is a vast majority we decided to leave default behaviour the way it is.

Suppose you have 2 or more blogs, and would like the search to include all blogs of your site. By default search only searches the active blog. When you have tow blogs: myDiary and linkdump and you want to inlcude the linkdump in the searchresults you can go to the Adminsection, choose the blogsetings of linkdump and at the bottom of the options you will see a checkbox include this blog in search. When you active this checkbox, all searches will include this blog as well. To be sure, you can also activate this feature on your myDiary as well, if you want these items to be found when doing a search on the linkdump.

On a fresh install of NucleuS the searchresults SkinPart is defined like this:

<%searchresults(default)%>

The skinvar searchresult can have a optional maxresults as parameter. This defaults to 50.

<%searchresults(default,25)%>

nothing new in version 2.5 do far. But the use of nextlink and prevlink has been extended to the searchresults skinpart. So you can now add the following code to your skin:

<%searchresults(default,10)%>
<%prevlink(Previous,10)%> || <%nextlink(Next,10)%>

The next and previous links are only whown if there really is a next or previous page available.

–> Updates to nextlink/prevlink in post 2.5beta CVS versions

Well, it doens't match google's exactly, it's more of a start of that. You can import a special searchtemplate i use to display the results. In the admin section, go to Import/Export, Choose import searchtemplate and choose the import button. Once you've imported the template, edit your skin to this:

<%searchresults(searchresult,10)%>
<%prevlink(Previous,10)%> || <%nextlink(Next,10)%>

And perform a search on your site to see if it meets your expectations.