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Help Online: Google custom search searches the web instead of just the help site

Added by Aron Budea over 6 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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Normal
Target version:
Team - Q2/2018
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Description

When I go to https://help.libreoffice.org/ and do a search using the search bar on top, it gives results from all over the web.

Let's say I search for the word "template".
The first two results take to the extension site's template center, the third is a dictionary definition, the fourth is a FAQ entry from the documentfoundation wiki page, but there's also Squarespace and Qubes OS templates among the results on the first page. None of the first page results are from the help site.

I'd say, this particular search should be restricted to the help site.

Actions #1

Updated by Florian Effenberger over 6 years ago

  • Assignee set to Olivier Hallot
  • Target version set to Q2/2018
Actions #2

Updated by Florian Effenberger over 6 years ago

Olivier, any idea?

Actions #3

Updated by Florian Effenberger over 6 years ago

Ping, Olivier?

Actions #4

Updated by Olivier Hallot over 6 years ago

Florian Effenberger wrote:

Ping, Olivier?

The custom search is restricted to LibreOffice and TDF realms, and explicitely vetoes "office.com" and "microsoft.com". A mistake slipped in en-US and has been fixed.

NOte that the results often indicates the old wikihelp, this is because Google is slow in indexing the new website format.

Actions #5

Updated by Florian Effenberger over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
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