#48726 [Ver]: website search results ignores language preference

ID: 48726 Updated by: rquadling@php.net Reported By: arlo at arlomedia dot com Status: Verified Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Mac OS 10.5 PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: Hannes, is it possible to log the actual requests to make sure the language _IS_ being supplied correctly? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-06-30 07:48:55] bjori@php.net What I don't understand is why the language detection isn't working, we are explicitly asking for the language you provide (falling back to english if none). I'd rather try to fix the language detection then to muck around with dirty quickfixes by limiting the search range based on path structure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-06-30 01:37:11] arlo at arlomedia dot com Thanks for considering. I don't know what setup options Yahoo gives you for its search tool, but here are two ideas that might be worth a look: - The Yahoo search is configured for a starting directory of php.net/manual. Is this an argument that php.net passes to Yahoo with every search query? If so, the argument could be extended to include the language code, like php.net/manual/en. - The Yahoo search tips page you mentioned above includes an option "inurl". When I tried this on yahoo.com, I was able to limit the search results to English by including inurl:/en/ in my search terms. (http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkie5aUlKKacARPRXNyoA? p=class+constants+site%3Aphp.net+inurl%3A%2Fen%2F&y=Search&fr=yfp-t- 501&fr2=sb-top&sao=1) The php.net site interpreted this as a literal string when I entered it into the search box there. But if the search script on php.net automatically added this when it sent the query to Yahoo, would Yahoo handle it as it does on its own site? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-06-29 23:28:09] danbrown@php.net 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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