Recent Improvements to SL Search
At Linden Lab, we recognize that SL Search is an aspect of the Second Life experience that is a top “back to basics,” priority to improve. So, over the last few months, the SL Search team has been working hard to make Search results more accurate and prepare for the Teen Second Life migration to [...]
Search Update: Feeds
This morning, we had a small release that we believe will make a big impact on the quality and consistancy of Search. We have moved from a crawl system to a feed system. In our previous crawl mode, the GSAs handled discovery and indexing inworld data with its own schedule and rules. With the new [...]
Grid wide “places” search reactivated.
Hello Everyone, I am happy to announce that we have revived the places search this week, I would like to thank Andrew Hellershanks and Melanie Milland for helping us work out some last minute bugs to make to get things working smoothly with search. If you want to get your Region’s/Parcels listed in the places [...]
In which Sea talks about Search Progress and Deployment
I’m feeling a little A.A. Milne this morning, so forgive the title. Early this week, the additional relevancy improvements associated with last week’s release finished rolling out. The index update took too long and we’ve made changing that a priority. It’s a huge frustration that we share with Residents. There were a couple of high-profile [...]
Search Index Update in Progress
This morning, you should continue to see all the improvements associated with this week’s release rolling out. It’s not complete yet, but we’re monitoring it over the weekend to ensure it goes out as expected. In addition, we’re exploring other options for rolling out changes. When we do a big update, there are 1.5 million [...]
Search Release, it’s an Event
We had a small release last week and have been fine-tuning performance in preparation for our next release. Improving performance is a major concern of ours and if you haven’t yet, please download the latest Viewer. Search performance depends, in part, on Viewer performance and every Viewer release improves Search performance. Just released! You may [...]