We've got a new secret project underway. I can't tell you much about it, but I can give you some hints along the way. Each letter in the project name represents a different function that contributes to the project as a whole.
Instead of telling you what the acronym represents now and completely spoil the surprise, I'm going to instead pick out specific letters as we make progress and tell you about them little by little. A I tell you a little bit more, I'll roll over different letters in the project name - which should give you a better idea of what the overall direction of this project is.
(Anyone guessing early and leaving comments that spoil the surprise for everyone is just plain mean and will generate substantial negative karma for themselves)
Today's letter is the letter "S".
Blogware users want search, we know they want search, so now they have search. Actually, this is just "proto-search" - really just the first step in our search journey.
The search tool is moderately rudimentary to start. It currently only handles AND and OR searches with the default being AND. It doesn't do phrase searching - yet, but our feeling is that this subset should be good enough to get the ball rolling.
We're currently searching only article titles and descriptions and weigh terms within a title a little but higher than terms found in the entry itself.
Existing Blogware Publishers can add the Search function to their blog by dropping the "Search Component" into their layout. Instructions on how to add components to your live layout found in the Blogware (needs some finishing touches) Help Guide.
A ton more work to do on this feature, and we're not going to do all of it ourselves. More on that as we progress.