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Printed Date: 11 April 2026 at 10:08am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: External search URLs

Posted By: boxed
Subject: External search URLs
Date 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. http://www.mysite.com/search_results_posts.asp?KW=keywords - www.mysite.com/search_results_posts.asp?KW=keywords

Thanks

Paul

--- Currently testing Web Wiz Forums pre-deployment

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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.

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