google searchautomation feature

[jerwarren]

one thing that would be helpful would be to have any hits to the front page with a referrer that is a search query automatically be shown the results of that same query locally.

to put it another way, when someone searches google for something, and finds your site and clicks the link, and is then shown new content rather than what google had indexed, have it automatically do a serendipity search for the same query and present that instead of the front page.

does that make sense?

[garvinhicking]

A plugin for that could be done quite easily; you could take the search highlight plugin and modify it to make a search instead.

A problem is that you cannot easily translate google search queries into MySQL search queries, as the "+" and "-" operators plus quoted strings may not be what you need to use for MySQL search...

I must admit that a solution like this would be very geeky, but then again may not be what the google visitors would like to see? I suppose if they wanted to see what google saw, they'd visit the "cached version" of their search result?

Regards,
garvin