The other day I was doing some testing on the joomla search functions for clients' site and I came up with some unwanted results. This website, based around financial market, was returning results with title "Mambo", "PHP.net", "MySQL.com".

 

Then I realize that I'd forgotten something really obvious ... by default Joomla installed with the "Search Newsfeeds", "Search Weblinks" and "Search Contacts" plugin enabled. If you never delete all the newsfeeds and weblinks in joomla default installation, they'll then turn up in the search results.

 So, I disabled those plug-in, and also those the called "Search - Sections" and "Search -Categories". I figure that most people are looking for individual content items rather than general folders on a subject.

A small change, but it will speed up the search process and also make it more useful.

I'd forgotten something really simple ... by default Joomla comes with the "Search Newsfeeds", "Search Weblinks" and "Search Contacts" mambots published. If you never get around to deleting all the newsfeeds and weblinks, they'll then turn up in the search results.

So, I unpublished those mambots, and also those the called "Search Sections" and "Search Categories". I figure that people are looking for individual content items rather than general folders on a subject.