#48726 [Opn->Fbk]: website search results ignores language preference

ID: 48726 Updated by: danbrown@php.net Reported By: arlo at arlomedia dot com -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Mac OS 10.5 PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: This is due to the way in which Yahoo! - like all of the major search engines - spiders and catalogs the data. The site-wide search on the PHP website is powered by Yahoo!'s search engine. Of course, as such, you can use Yahoo!'s search operators, meta words, etc. (see http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/basics/basics-04.html for more information), but as far as changing the method in which this is handled (i.e. - switching from Yahoo!), I'm not so sure it's planned for the foreseeable future. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-06-29 20:34:11] arlo at arlomedia dot com Second sentence should have said "these are essentially duplicate results," not "essential duplicate results." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-06-29 20:33:03] arlo at arlomedia dot com Description: ------------ Often when I search the online documentation at php.net, the search results include multiple entries for the same page in different languages. These are essential duplicate results that make the search results less useful. I would rather just see pages from my selected language (which is already sent to the search script from the search form). Reproduce code: --------------- I entered "class constants" into the search field and selected "online documentation". This led to this URL: http://us3.php.net/results.php?q=class+constants&p=manual&l=en The first eight results are the same page in eight different languages. After the first page, I see a variety of other results, but they are offered in different languages seemingly at random. Expected result: ---------------- Since I'm using the English version of the manual, I would expect to see only English results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48726&edit=1