IndieWeb Search Changelog
This page lists the main changes made to the search engine by month.
February 2022
- Started restructuring code documentation
- Added new features to the crawler regarding status code handling and crawl budget management
- Rewrote some recrawling logic to be easier to manage
- Restructured codebase to make it easier to read
- Improved new mobile navigation menu
January 2022
- Added new mobile navigation menu
December 2021
- Added RSS feed support for each search page.
- Added jf2, JSON, and RSS feed autodiscovery links to search pages.
- Modified weights in ranking algorithm.
- Added tags to home page.
- Bug fixes.
November 2021
- Cleaned up the codebase so that it is easier to read and maintain.
- Added new special result features for recipes, reviews, and events.
- Added authorship discovery and post type discovery to crawler.
- Added an API to programmatically discover the author and post type of a URL.
- Added dark mode.
October 2021
- Crawler can now retrieve and process sites faster.
- Link index was rebuilt.
- Work towards preventing canonical loops was added to the crawler.
- Search UI now nests results from the same page that appear consecutively in a search result.
- IndieWeb Search now has limited support for extracting code snippets from IndieWeb wiki pages. This feature is still experimental and more work needs to be done to test and finish code snippet support.
- Crawler uses SHA hashes to identify duplicate content.
- New sites were added to the index.
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