User blog:KyleH/Lucene Search launching soon

Hi everyone,

This Wednesday, we are tentatively planning to release a new search for Wikia called Lucene Search. This is the search engine that Wikipedia has been using for quite some time, and provides a number of significant advantages: You can try out Lucene Search at Fallout and FFXI. If you have any questions or comments, please reply to this blog post.
 * Short words are properly indexed (the old search ignored words with fewer than 4 letters).
 * Numbers are indexed.
 * "Common words" are indexed (words such as "from", "with", and "what" were previously ignored.
 * Search is no longer case sensitive.
 * Relevance should be dramatically improved--results are ranked by how the search terms are used within the page, number of incoming links to the page, and a number of other factors to provide the best possible results.
 * Results display the rendered text of the pages rather than the raw source with MediaWiki markup, which should make them significantly more readable.

Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 20:36, October 5, 2009 (UTC)