Search Problems Fixed (8th July 2006)

The search page has not been providing good results for quite a while. After some investigation, I noticed this in my markup on that page:

  <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="www.projectcerbera.com">
  <input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="www.projectcerbera.com">

These tell Google which sites it should search based on their domain name. They are including the www. portion of the URL, but I recently Simplified my URLs, removing the www. portion. Looks like Google doesn’t realise that www.projectcerbera.com is the same website as projectcerbera.com!

I tried altering the markup to this:

  <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="projectcerbera.com">
  <input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="projectcerbera.com">

It now works again. Hopefully this will make it easier for people to find things on this website again.