I decided the blog needed upgraded search capabilities, since Fletcher Penney’s find plugin just really wasn’t cutting it for me. So today I installed swish++, easily compiled and installed it, and after a quick perusal of the man page, indexed my web page in a matter of seconds. I then looked at Matthew Gregg’s swish plugin to blosxom and decided it needed some sprucing up. Namely, the search results needed to look more like google: sorted by rank (not by date), and divided up ten per page with navigation controls. So I hacked that in, along with a new blosxom search flavour. Here’s my version of the plugin; just type in something to the left in the search box to see what it produces. The new flavour templates use $swish::search in the head, $swish::rank in the story, and $swish::navigation in the foot. Hope someone finds this useful!