cat dog- search for pages about cats or dogs, most probably bothfox site:example.org- search example.org (if indexed) for term "fox"fox -site:example.org- search all indexed sites exceptexample.orgfor term "fox"emoji lang:de- search pages that claim to mainly contain German content for the term "emoji"
When searching, capitalisation and inflection do not matter, as search terms are:
- Converted to lowercase using the go standard library
- Passed through jinzhu's inflection library for converting to a possible singular form (intended to work with English nouns)
Lieu currently only renders its results to HTML. A query can be passed to the / endpoint using a GET request.
It supports two URL parameters:
q- used for the search querysite- accepts one domain name and will have the same effect as thesite:<domain>syntax. You can use this to make your webrings search engine double as a searchbox on your website.
To search example.org for the term "ssh" using https://search.webring.example:
https://search.webring.example/?q=ssh&site=example.org
Adding a form element, to use Lieu as a search engine, to the HTML at example.org:
<form method="GET" action="https://search.webring.example">
<label for="search">Search example.org</label>
<input type="search" minlength="1" required="" name="q" placeholder="Your search query here" id="search">
<input type="hidden" name="site" value="example.org"> <!-- This hidden field tells lieu to only search example.org -->
<button type="submit">Let's go!</button>
</form>