The search box on www.freebsd.org..

[John Baldwin]

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?

-- 
John Baldwin