Site search refinement: not your own journal?

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Title:
Site search refinement: not your own journal?

Area:
site search

Summary:
When using site search, is there any benefit to seeing results from your own journal along with the sitewide results, provided you can search your own journal?

Description:
If you can't search your own journal individually, site search may be the only way you have to search your own journal, and I wouldn't want to mess that up for anyone.

If you can search your own journal, is there any benefit to having results from there displayed along with everybody else? I ask because I was running a search where I was 90% or more of the entries sitewide, and I was looking for stuff I didn't already know about.

Assuming it's feature-wise desirable to exclude the journal of the logged-in user from sitewide search results (if and only if that user can also search their own journal), would it be technically feasible? (This is probably a Mark question.)

If it's desirable and technically feasible, how best to implement it? Some thoughts:

* a separate radio button besides user-search and site search
* a checkbox on site search
* just exclude them and leave a note at the top of the search results
* other people may have way better ideas

Poll #13973 Site search refinement: not your own journal?

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (23.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
15 (38.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (38.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)