The search box on my blog stopped working. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who uses it anyway, and I can still search entries through MT, so I'm not too upset. I think it happened with the upgrade sometime ago. Instead of trying to fix it right now I'm going to try out the Lijit search widget to see if that works for me. I currently have it searching more than my blog; I've added del.icio.us, Tumblr, Flickr, and Viddler to the search. The first test search I tried didn't work, not sure if has to go through some indexing process first... but it's still working better than my normal search box did so we'll keep it around for awhile.
**Update**
I should really read help before posting. So it turns out it indexes using Google, maybe I should remove the noindex/nofollow from my HTML then. It might seem weird that I have those in there, but I honestly hate having my blog indexed in Google... it makes me feel like an authority of things, which I'm not, and I would rather people discover my blog through other networks. I prefer the smaller, more intimate blog audience I guess.
I suppose it's about time I come out of hiding from Google.
Heidi, thanks for giving Lijit a chance on your blog. While we are currently using Google for indexing most of our publishers, we have also built our own search engine with the hope of transitioning all of our users over soon.
If you (or your readers) have any other feedback about our search-based application, feel free to send it my way. I'm tara [at] lijit [dot] com.
Hi Tara, thanks for stopping by! I think transitioning from Google is a good idea, at least for somebody like me who like to keep my blog posts out of Google. I do like the idea of Lijit and how I can incorporate some of my other networks/sites too. I look forward to seeing your new application.