The search box on www.freebsd.org..

[Tom Rhodes]

On Sun, 13 May 2007 13:55:13 +0400
"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2007.05.10 14:21:16 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 May 2007 01:07:57 pm Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > On 2007.05.10 11:46:56 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > SUCKS/BLOWS CHUNKS/etc.
> > > > 
> > > > Really, it's bad.  I just typed in 'logo' to find the page about logo 
> > usage, 
> > > > and it returned 0 results, not even http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html.  
> > That's 
> > > > exceedingly lame.  Its worse than having no search box at all because 
> > people 
> > > > will try to _use_ it and then get frustrated.  It should either be killed, 
> > or 
> > > > it should be replaced with something that actually _works_ (probably it 
> > > > should make use of Y!, Google, or Rambler.ru something to do the search).
> > > 
> > > I think most people agree with that, the problem is that it takes some
> > > time to get right and there currently aren't that many active doc
> > > committers since they over time seem to gravitate towards src...
> > > 
> > > doc are unfortunatly not as good as src, and even more ports, at
> > > getting new people.
> > 
> > Then perhaps we should at least turn it off for now until we can fix it?
> 
> I'm not really up to something like that unless there is strong
> support for that... but
> 
> I had something else to do today, so to avoid doing that I got to play
> around a bit with Y! Search :-).
> 
> This is just a proof-of-concept, which certainly needs to be tweaked
> more etc, but it seems to work:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~simon/search/
> 
> I know more elaborate solutions has been suggeted, but the advantage
> of this setup is that it's rather simple to do.
> 
> Is this the way to go?
> 
> Note: I have to read over the terms a few more times to be sure you
> are allowed to embed the search box like that into the site, but I
> think it's OK from how I read it.
> 
> -- 
> Simon L. Nielsen
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Tom Rhodes