Many Network Creators and members have written to us recently through the Help Center and here on Creators reporting issues related to Search. I head up Ning’s Search team, one of the Agile Teams here at Ning, and we’re currently working hard to improve the search experience across the Ning Platform.
Right now, the Search team is developing a platform-wide Ning Network search in parallel with our ongoing efforts to improve in-network search. We’ve been working on both of these projects for some time now. Just last week, we made some major changes to in-network search, including hardware upgrades, that should ensure current and steady results. We’ve also heard a lot of feedback from Network Creators and members requesting that we bring back search for Ning Networks, and we want to make it better than ever! We have a release planned for this updated feature sometime in late March.
We appreciate your patience as we continue our efforts to revamp search. In the meantime, if you have any search-related questions or concerns about your individual Ning Network, we can help you through the Help Center. As always, our Advocacy Team is happy to help! They work closely with us in Search to make sure we stay on top of pressing issues and keep us posted with feedback received on Creators and through the Help Center.
Stay tuned for further updates on Search!
Thanks!
Brent
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I have not problem with you disagreeing with me. That is fine.
I DO have a problem with you trying to "out" me to make your point. You being able to find some of my profiles (but not my sites as you were attempting to do) and some profiles that are not me, has nothing to do with this issue of spam. I have asked nicely for your to remove that comment. I would appreciate it if you did so.
If you think that it is appropriate to expose others personal information without their consent simply because it is "public" (you could find it with a search engine), then we fundamentally disagree. Please remove your comment where you attempted to show me up to the world. Thank you.
@Janettee: Spam on Ning sites now is mostly happening on non-premium service sites, right? Without their own domain, right? So yes, it's easy to Google "Ning" and find some sites to spam. But the directory of sites that was on Ning previously list even those sites that were not easily identifiable as Ning sites from Google. People that paid for their own domain. So attempting to get Ning to list all these sites again is still a very bad idea. It will only help those who want to spam.
No search on Ning.com DID eliminate over 90% of spammers on the two sites I deal with (5k+ and 10k+ members). So removing that "feature" was VERY good for Network Creators. It should never come back. Nings role is not to be a directory of sites. It is to provide the platform for networks. It is NOT to be a directory of our sites or to make it easy for spammers.
If you "suffer" because you can't find Ning sites and "hate having to go to google" to find site you are interested in... you lead a pretty posh life. Can I peel you a grape? ;-)
Check out Jen's site for Ning sites that want to be found by other Ningers.
Seriously, don't go back to the days of the spammers working their way through your easily browsable database of sites joining and spamming them all. Those days sucked for the creators of large sites. Dozens of spammers joining daily. I would be happy to never see spammers be able to easily find all the Ning sites ever again. As for real people that are interested in the topic of my site? Google will get them there quite nicely.
Please concentrate all your time on making search work within each network. THAT will be helpful. :-)
It cant´t be so hard to give us a way to choose, an option, after all for those who don´t know what it its or choose to not change will be ever possible to go using that "old erronic Ning search"!
Please let us know a bit more about this issue through the Help Center so we can get you back in action.
Thanks!
Aaron
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