Feature Request: Enhanced Sort Options

[Hex Angel]

It would be very cool if arbitrary values could be assigned to each page by which search results could be sorted. Something like



<meta name="ZOOMSORTTITLE" content="Page Hits" >
<meta name="ZOOMSORTVALUE" content="124" >
<meta name="ZOOMSORTTITLE" content="Popularity" >
<meta name="ZOOMSORTVALUE" content="3561" >
<meta name="ZOOMSORTTITLE" content="Price" >
<meta name="ZOOMSORTVALUE" content="$59.99" >


So that in addition to date and relevance the option to sort results by "Page Hits," "Popularity" and "Price" -- or other metrics -- would also be available.

It would be even cooler if there were some way to display these values in our search results, regardless of the sort method selected.

Cheers,

p.

[Ray]

This is actually similar to something we have in mind for the next major release (V6).

We are planning on adding support for user specifiable meta tags, which allow you to add custom meta fields for searching. There will be different data types supported as well so you can specify ranges values for prices etc.

We haven't considered sorting to be part of this, but we will keep it in mind and see what's possible. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Hex Angel]

That would be brilliant!

p.