Google Suggest

[Chappers]

Hello,

Has anyone been able to modify the google suggest functionality to
just return suggestions from a single collection?

We use a variety of front ends and have them just serving results from
a single collection. I am really keen to implement this great
functionality, however obviously I need to restrict the google
suggestions to just those results from the relevant collection.

Many thanks and kind regards
Steven Chapman

[Mahesh T]

Hi Steven,

Have you tried the new version (6.2)?
It seems the suggestions show up based on site & client params in the
suggest request.

[abc]

Hi, Steven.

My experience tells me that new GSA suggest feature does not
distinguish between site-specific requests. What I had to do to solve
the problem was to append site name to visitor's requests, so I would
have:

summer site:first.foo.com
summer site:second.foo.com
etc.

Then I had to create a suggestions proxy which would: fetch requests
from my more than 200 web sites; deliver requests to GSA/suggest on
each visitor's keystroke; fetch 300 suggestions (key_matches=300);
filter out those not related to the requesting web site; deliver top
ten suggestions back to the client.

In my scenario, I have only one (default) collection and only one
front end so I don't know for sure how GSA/suggest handles multiple
collections. Maybe we should add our request for site-specific/
collection-specific suggestions delivery to the GSA Feature Request
List. A couple of new GSA/suggest parameters would be very useful.

My next step will be to get rid of GSA/suggest alltogether and build
my own, database-driven, solution.

Hope this helps