The search box on www.freebsd.org..

[Remko Lodder]

Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 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).
> 

I dont object. PLEASE proceed!

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