Google has now indexed more than 10,000 pages of ExploreOurPla.net and offers on-site search results.
Not only to reduce server load I’ve disabled the internal wordpress search and let now Google do the work. Example: Search results for Tuvalu
Actually the main reason for switching was the possibility of combined search over posts, pages, maps and servers.
Usually when searching for Climate Change or similar topics you’ll get thousands of web pages, documents and PDF files.
In most cases the more profound hits are not at the top of the result list. 
Modern search engines implement the pagerank algorithm, which pushes pages with a lot of incoming links.
But the engines have no clue about the content and can not determine the amount of facts or how often a work is cited or quoted in the scientific community.
Therefore I’ve opened a section with important documents, which helped me a lot to understand and to reduce the complexity of this subject. Currently only four items are listes, but it’s definetly a work in progress.
All of them are quite long, so it is a good idea to print them out and read them outside in a park or coffee bar.
An surprising amount of visitors found different ways of making use out of ExploreOurPla.net.
They generate permalinks to their home town, track ships while sailing around the world, use it in classrooms for geography lessons, display latest news (RSS) of their homepages with the geoFeedExplorer and visualize changes of their country with time enabled near realtime maps.
Some of this ideas are now collected in the backlinks section. Get inspired.
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