The new search engine of SF Search engine
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The new search engine of SF Search engine optimization Nordic webseminar, Oslo, 7. -8. February 2012 Markku Huttunen
Project: to implement new search engine for www. stat. fi Technical searh engine project finalised in Nov 2010 n Aim to monernize the search function, UI and implement all new functions (faceted search, best bets etc) n Project suggested new functions to the organisation (technical support, contents support, service support) n Best practises: Canada, SCB, ILO searh UI´s n Time table: ready by 31. 3. 2011? Or by 02/2012? n Problems: key person on job alternation leave for 1 year n Challenge: the contents of the website was not so valid as we thought n Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
Implementation of the search engine Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
Information Services 24. 10. 2021 4
s Overview of recent enhancements Information Services 24. 10. 2021 5
New search engine will have many faces… n Deliver the free text search function to the website l n Deliver functionalities to the website l n It should have something extra to offer compared with Google Backround tool to produce different listings based on document metadata The (technical) search engine is to be used in different functions: website, intranet, Findicator, Tieto&Trendit magazine subsite, XML meta database Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
Optimizing the seach index What files to index and what files to exclude from the index? n 140 000 html files, about 105 000 are indexed at the moment n l Classifications 40 000 files, concepts and definitions 5 000 files What file types: HTML, PX, PDF, dynamic pages, (XML) n We need a spider and rules for the spider n The logic of our spider is more complex than Google´s n Google spider just follows the links and indexes everything exept ”noindex” l We give our spider a list on valid files to index based on clear rules l n The timing of the search function l New statistical releases 9. 00 sharp also from search function? Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
Optimizing the relevance of the results n The contents and stuctures of the files l l l n The structure of the documents is actively used instead of indexing just the contents of the whole <body>xyz</body> For example tables are recognized from the body -> thus we can search tables which are inside a longer text document In search results we can deliver tables from the documents they are exracted from Problem: there has been several problems with the quality of the files l The structure and the metadata of the files has to be repaired Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
Optimizing the results using the human factor n The top 20 searches analyzed (Google and SF search) l l n Based on the analysis we have decided best answers to some of the most used search terms l n For example search term ”population” -> the population theme page will be the forced to be the first result link Try also l n Top 20 searches cover the most search incidents The top search terms are constantly the same Based on a list of ”synonyms” some hints are given: ”inflation” -> ”CPI” Key words l Suggested links to other relevant statistics is based on a list of 1 000 common key words listed to all statics Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
Search engine optimization of SF web site n The information architecture of the statistics pages is clear l n Our URLs are search engine friendly l l n And designed to be archived: Google loves old pages! We dont change URLs when publishing platform changes Our URLs are short and human (and Google) readable Our main contents are search engine friendly l l Permanent home page for all statistics All statistical releases, tables, graphs etc. are archived with original URLs The stucture of the statistical releases is standardised All pages have H 1 main title, the title matadata tags are used etc. Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
Search engine optimization of SF web site 2 n The 1 000 keywords are listed on the statistics home pages l l For Google as well as for human users The key words are common library keywords when possibe (ALLÄRS - Allmän tesaurus på svenska) As part of the search engine work the key words were translated to english and swedish – will be published with the new search engine The same key wors are used by SF search engine to have more functionalities The file based PX-Web data base is search engine friendly n We are trying to follow w 3 c standards whenever we can n We use the ”noindex” command n l We have ”tested” that Google really follows the command Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
Search engine optimization – what could be done more? The top 20 search terms should be analyzed and checked what could be done better n Keep the 50 000 monthly search terms alive also n We should open some our contents to be redistributed (links) n We have used SEO services only in a couple of limited cases n We haven´t used Google Ad. Words n Shorten some the titles of the statistical releases n Standardize the statistical releases a bit more n Shorten some of the statistical releases – better web writing n Markku Huttunen 6. 2. 2012
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