An improved and smart search engine on hafnarfjordur.is
This spring, an improved and rather clever search engine was launched on the City of Hafnarfjörður's website. Increasing residents' self-service through smart digital solutions is a clear objective in the city's service provision, and this is how the city's website is being systematically improved.
This spring, an improved and rather clever search engine was launched on the website.
City of Hafnarfjörður. Increased self-service for residents through smart digital solutions.
is a clear objective in the town's service, and thus it is being worked on purposefully.
Continuous improvements to the town's website, etc. with new calculators .

Key changes to the smart
search engine
- Very fast, delivers results extremely quickly.
high. - Users can now filter results by several
categorise and thus get results for minutes, documents, news and
staff. A search of minutes has until now only been available in
through the online minutes page, and the same can be said for searching for staff who
has only been available in specialised reference works - Different weighting is applied to content; for example, pages are ranked lower.
The web, higher than documents, news and minutes - The search forgives typos and common misspellings.
e.g. regarding y or i or letter transposition - There is a certain editorial control over the results. It is known
assumed that certain keywords are more common than others and this information is
used to direct users in the right direction and suggestions made to the results immediately
typing - The search returns results for singular and
Plural forms of words, as well as their grammatical cases. It is possible to write words in
Nominative singular. Example: The word 'drawing' immediately returns results for
drawings, the drawing, the drawings, etc.
We welcome everyone
Suggestions!
If you have a suggestion regarding the new calculators or other
If you're happy with the service, please do send us a line. We welcome all suggestions., big and small!