Updates and Bug Fixes - December 2014

mojeek

10 December 2014

2 min

When developing a search engine there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that's not immediately apparent. So this is the first of what will be a regular post highlighting the most recent and important feature updates and bug fixes happening at Mojeek.

Updates

Improved handling of redirects for ranking purposes.
Big relevancy update (mostly due to tweaking of external signals).
Increased the initial boost new pages get in the results.
Improved crawl prioritisation and refresh rates in general.
Improved algorithm for when stop words are included in the search.

Features

Added EU as a country search option. The EU search option allows you to expand or restrict your search to all of the EU, instead of just the web or a single country (this will be available in the UI soon).

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with single digits not being included in the search.
Fixed indexing issue with default (home) pages that previously forced a path in the URL, but now 404 instead of redirecting to a new location.
Fixed PageQuery box not always displaying snippet. The PageQuery box is displayed when a URL is searched for and is indexed, if no box is displayed then Mojeek hasn't yet indexed the URL.
Fixed UK country search ignoring pages with GB status.
Fixed issue with meta noindex documents still being indexed.
Fixed cases where some (usually stop) words not being highlighted in the snippets.

Please let us know if there's a particular feature you'd like to see or have come across any bugs. Your feedback would be appreciated and will help us to improve quicker.

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