Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : External search URLs https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:13:53 +0000 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:32:14 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=20380 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[External search URLs : For performance reasons Web...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/external-search-urls_topic20380_post109396.html#109396 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 20380
Posted: 21 June 2006 at 10:32am

For performance reasons Web Wiz Forums works in the same way a number of other large forums systems work when doing searches.

To save on server resources when a search is carried out it is stored in the web servers memory for 10 minutes, and is only available to that member who created the search, this saves on database hits which are very resource intensive when search through large databases.

Having an external link to a search result would mean that everytime someone clicks that link an intensive search operation would need to be carried out, this isn't so bad if just a few people did this, but imagine if you had a lot of spiders spidering your forum (this site seems to have around 30 spiders on it constantly) every time it came to this search link the intensive search would be done again, and again, and again.

By also caching the search in this way, if the search results are across multiple pages then the search doesn't need to be performed repeatedly when moving between search result pages.

When you find the post you want from the search, you can still always link directly to that posts, with keywords highlighted.


Edited by -boRg- - 21 June 2006 at 10:32am]]> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:32:14 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/external-search-urls_topic20380_post109396.html#109396 <![CDATA[External search URLs : Hi all, I&#039;ve searched...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/external-search-urls_topic20380_post109382.html#109382 Author: boxed
Subject: 20380
Posted: 21 June 2006 at 4:00am

Hi all,
 
I've searched the forums and I'm surprised this hasn't come up before. Can you create an external link to the search results page, e.g. www.mysite.com/search_results_posts.asp?KW=keywords
 
Thanks
 
Paul
 
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