Slashgeo

In our efforts to improve Slashgeo's experience, we added a new search in the left menu on the main page. This is not a minor improvement and here's why. First, there's a whole new searchbox: searching tens of manually selected geospatial blogs using Google's Custom Search. Second, the stock slashcode search has some serious limitations: (1) search words must have 4 letters or more, which is a serious problem if a user wants to search for GPS, KML, LBS or GML, etc., (2) some words are ommited at MySQL's level, such as 'where', so you could not search for the Where 2.0 conference and (3), the comments themselves are not searchable. The old search, at the bottom of the page, is still there for you to use it. It's not that obsolete since it offers some flexibility that the Google custom search does not provide. Another related tip: I often use the topics page to find items related to a specific topic. One last thing, text ads are shown on the custom search results page. Let's say this is experimentation and testing. The next poll will ask you, the Slashgeo users, what you think of this situation.