Custom Google Search for the New SCN
It’s fast, the results make sense and it has categorized results from SCN, SAP Help and the SCN Wiki. What is it? It’s a Google Custom Search I created especially for SCN: SAP Universal Search
I started working on this last night and then slept on it for 4 hrs (I’ve got a 16 month old, after all). This morning I came in and put the finishing touches on it. Using this custom search, you can choose between Web and Image results and then refine them by several key categories:
| All Results | All resulst from scn.sap.com, wiki.sdn.sap.com and help.sap.com |
| Discussions | SCN Discussion (forum) threads only |
| SAP How-To Guide | How-To Guides |
| SCN Support Discussions | Search threads in the SCN Support forum (New!) |
| Blogs | SCN Blogs only |
| People | Find other SCN members (and follow them!) |
| Documents | All SCN documents (collaborative, articles, presentations, etc.) |
| Wiki | Results from the SCN Wiki |
| eLearning | All SCN demos, tutorials, eClasses (SAP TechEd), podcasts and SCN-TV videos |
| Spaces | Find SCN topic and product spaces: your starting point for related discussions, blogs, documents, news and more. (New!) |
What’s really nice about this custom search, in additional to performance and granularity, is that I can use it to gauge how much content Google has crawled over the past week (Update on New SCN Results in Google) which, from what I can see based on the search results appearing, is a ton! It’s also exciting to finally have SCN blogs appearing in Google search results en masse. Users can also find eLearning content with greater easy too.
I would have liked to further refine the discussions tab to filter for Open and Answered questions but I just couldn’t get the query to run correctly 🙁 .
So, please give it a try and let me know what you think: SAP Universal Search
I know this is not a replacement for site search or the old SCN forum search but it’s a starting point. The only reason I did this was in response to all the feedback I’ve seen in SCN Support and comments on Forum Finder for the New SCN about how hard it is to find what you’re looking for. I feel your frustration and just wanted to help you continue connecting, collaborating and co-innovating on the New SCN with greater ease.
I love it Jason thanks so much!
The refinement options are awesome. Just yesterday I was thinking that the ability to find people directly by name on the new SCN is sorely lacking. Problem solved!
Very Helpful.... Good work Jason 🙂 .
Helpful work...
but previous site of SDN was more powerful for me. 😐
wonderful work and thanks a lot jason, i shared this link with all my SAP friends and colleagues.
regards,
mahesh
I made some refinements today to the custom search:
Enjoy and feel free to make synonym and refinement suggestions.
Very nice. Thanks so much!
Yesterday only i found out this custom search. It is very helpful. Thanks a lot.
Yesterday only i found out this custom search. It is very helpful. Thanks a lot.
Cool stuff! Many thanks.
Awesome
This is very helpful
Awesome,, Thank you so much..Actually it saved alot of time....
Good Job done
Vijay
Very helpful. Thanks a lot.
I love it. Could you also add a refine option for the help.sap.com content?
Great idea: just added "Help Portal" to the filters.
Great job! Another tool to help most of the community. Kudos! 🙂
This is awesome - now time to have it adopted as an alternative within SCN.
Wonderful build up, congratulations...
Super Cool ... No more need to remember all those special Google Syntax for site specific search!
Hi Jason,
Stuck behind a corporate filter here, that won't let me access bit.ly content !! Could you please post the real link ?
Hi Martin,
Try with http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=013447253335410278659:k8ob9ipscwg
Regards, Vinod
Thanks for jumping in Vinod!
thanks Vinod
Jason ... Is there a way we could turn on the Date Filter?
For standard Google search, I could click on the "Show Search Tools" and get some options for date filtering.
Thanks in ahead.
Great idea! I just checked and the only option is to enable sorting by date. If you look at the search results, notice the sort options on the top right. The default is by relevance but you can change it to date. Thanks.
Quite cool indeed. On the first try I found very useful links...
Thanks a lot.
J.
This is very good solution. I liked it. Thank you very much Jason.
The URL is not working today. Any idea?
Google has changed the way some older URLs work.
Please try https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=013447253335410278659:k8ob9ipscwg
(I’ve also updated the links in the text above).
Thank you Jason...
Thanks. The note 2195446 - Custom Google search for SAP Community Network Search needs an update 🙂
Bala
I had no idea this made its way to an SAP Note!
I'll provide the team with this feedback. Thanks!