Title: Optimizing built-in Search engine
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Optimizing built-in Search engine

 *  [musethalia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musethalia/)
 * (@musethalia)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-built-in-search-engine/)
 * Hi there,
    I’m new around here, and I hope you guys can answer a question. To
   begin with, I’ve been blogging for some time, and only recently got introduced
   to WordPress by my husband. I am so impressed! I love it.
 * As a result, when I was put in charge of communicating status on a project at
   work, I thought of creating a team blog, but the problem that I have is that 
   much of our work has already been saved in subdirectories that live outside the
   WordPress databases in MySQL.
 * Is there any way to make the search engine built into the the blog software search
   those “alien” subdirectories, if they were ‘ported to MySQL?
 * It may be a dumb question, but thanks in advance for your advice.
 * Best regards,
    Linda aka “Muse Thalia”

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-built-in-search-engine/#post-198140)
 * Why not try google’s site search functionality? It will be up and functional 
   soon enough.
 *  Thread Starter [musethalia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musethalia/)
 * (@musethalia)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-built-in-search-engine/#post-198146)
 * I can’t. Corporate IT has deemed Google’s search tools to be unsecure, and users
   onsite cannot even download Google’s searchbar. (sigh) Otherwise, that’s a great
   suggestion.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-built-in-search-engine/#post-198146)
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