Feature Request: Smart Search (finder) plugin

[jojo12]

With Joomla!4+ ended com_search. If you update from Joomla!3 you still have search plugins and they work.
If you install Joomla 4+ new, then you don't get com_search!
Because Joomla says, that finder plugins are smarter and more intelligent than search plugins. So the question is: Is it possible to create a uddeIM smart search plugin? Make this sense? And how to do this?

[joomod]

?? hmm,
I don't know how the uddeim_searchbot.php exactly works.
hope slabbi can give an answer

[jojo12]

I think, it is a search plugin not a finder plugin. Am I right @slabbi?

[slabbi]

Correct. Please don't ask me about the Joomla finder. My last coding for Joomla was for J4 beta. I am using Wordpress for about eight years now.

[joomod]

I'm trying to find out for finder

[joomod]

so after it seems we have a very "issue-free" version I have tried and looked for a finder plugin,
BUT
as far as I understand the com_finder extension it is not usefull for a PM system.

Finder indexes all content to be faster, but to keep privacy on a PM system this index must then
be created for each user seperately, as a search should only be available for the user's personal pms.

so I decided it is more useful to keep the old searchbot and include the basic com_search and mod_search
(availble for J4, - two error corrections for J5) to an uddeim_search package along with the plug_uddeim_searchbot

original: https://github.com/joomla-extensions/search/releases/

as I noticed during tests:
some extensions (e.g. weblinks) install still a com_search plugin, but are not J5 compatible,
so make shure other com_search plugins are disabled.

you see in the package: com+mod+plug search are only 40kB.

pkg_uddeim_search_j50.zip