RSS Based Search

Most home grown websites don’t have a search function due to the complication of needing to set up a database of some sort. Others try adding a search function from one of the main search engine providers. Most of these have fairly undesirable behavior where the visitor has to leave the site to view the results. The results are also only as good as the info the bots crawling through the site have gathered.

RSS feed
I had the thought of enabling an rss feed of the site’s contents then have a mechanism to parse it against user entered keywords. Implement that as a search result in a Jekyll theme format like Minimal Mistakes then highlight the key words as you type.

Code

Looking around the net I found some javascript code under the MIT license that’s called Super-Search written by a guy named Kushagra Gour which looks like a good starting point.

Project

Project Started!
The Super Search Implementation - acronym ssimp.
See it in action on this site.