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Should the search results pages' excerpts reflect the italicization of the original comments? [more inside]
posted by nobody on Jun 23, 2023 - 21 comments

Unless I'm missing something, there is currently no way to see how old a search result is on the site other than clicking on the post in question to see when it was made. Are search results ordered in chronological order, or relevancy? [more inside]
posted by lesser weasel on Jun 12, 2018 - 5 comments

When a search results page loads, the focus moves into the search box (in the form with id "sform"), and I wish it wouldn't. [more inside]
posted by stebulus on Aug 15, 2013 - 16 comments

Can the RSS feeds be hidden from Google? They're pretty much useless in search results (like the first hit on this one).
posted by bonaldi on Mar 21, 2007 - 13 comments

Robots.txt for the <tagname>.metafilter.com domains should exclude all rebots. Currently the robots reindex the entire site for each subdomain.
posted by Sharcho on Jan 15, 2006 - 23 comments

Metafilter ranks third when using 'weblog' as a search term in Google at the moment. Worth celebrating?
posted by feelinglistless on Jan 9, 2005 - 23 comments