Until recently, the search box on the Tagalus front page only allowed you to search within Tags and not their defintions. So, a search for “twitter” would return #twittercrush, but not #twavatar.
A couple of days ago, the search was upgraded so that it now searches through definitions as well (using Xapian for those interested in such things). As you can see from the image above, this means that searching for “twitter” returns not only tags with “twitter” in the tag itself, but also if it is mentioned in the definition. This is true for not only the Ajax suggestion box (pictured), but also on the search results page that appears if you click the search button without choosing one of the suggested results.
This will soon be reflected in the API as well, which will have a variety of search options.
Teaser: this is paving the way for some very cool collaboration ideas that are being discussed right now - hopefully more info coming soon.
Tags: search