Description of the need I had someone ask me why many of their pages are inaccessible via search (they just don't show up). It turns out they are using Taxonomy Term landing pages extensively on the site, and apparently those don't show up at all in the search results.
Proposed solution Can we make the core search include both nodes and terms somehow?
Alternatives that have been considered I've started to port Term Search, but it is not ideal from an end user perspective because it requires the user to know whether they are searching for content or a term, which the typical user will have zero idea about.
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Try using caching in the View settings, set to 24 hours. This should work for anonymous site visitors.
View to show a different node each day
That would actually be a nice usability improvement. A lot of people already build search pages with Views, so having an easier way to convert the default search results into a View would make...
[UX] Convert search to a view.
Have you already played with Views random seed? I belief, what you try to achieve would work with that module. Show only one node and set the sort order to "Global: Random seed" with "...
View to show a different node each day