The search box on www.freebsd.org..

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2007.05.31 12:44:37 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Murray Stokely wrote:
> 
> > This can be addressed with sitemaps [1].  Y! claims ~5 million indexed
> > freebsd.org pages.  Do we know how many documents are in our home
> > grown search corpus?
> > 
> > I think we should switch the search bar to using google or Y!, just as
> > NetBSD does.
> 
> I think that given everything Yahoo! has given to the project, it
> would be reasonable to give their engine serious consideration unless
> there is a compelling reason not to.

Nobody really seemed to react to my proof of concept, but I actually
think it seems to work OK.  It's still online at:

http://people.freebsd.org/~simon/search/

I hope to polish this off, but I have been a but busy...

Since I haven't heard anyone say no, I'm seriously considering just
commiting this with "No objections: doc" when I get a chance to clean
it up... so, speak up now if you have strong objections to this (and
if you do, say what we should do instead).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen