http://www.freebsd.org search box broken again. Fix it.

[Julian H. Stacey]

"Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org has a search box, that's broken & often has been.
> Try typing any one of
> 	ls
> 	camera
> 	kde
> 3 Empty pages !
> 
> Compare with direct use of the search engine freebsd.org fails to use:
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freebsd.org++ls&t=h_&ia=web
> 	The FreeBSD Project
> 	ls(1) [freebsd man page]
> 
> FreeBSD search box was OK decades back I recall, but broken often
> since (in attempts for local based search I think?).  Let's throw
> it out & revert to something simple & reliable that works.  If
> tinkerers want we could also offer a 2nd button underneath for
> support of fancy experimental local based search apt to break.
> 
> Please fix it to call the existing duckduck properly, or if you can't
> call some other search engine, here's a list http://www.berklix.net/search/
> 
> FreeBSD will have lost a lot of interest over a long time, with our
> search box so often broken, returning nothing or not enough useful.
> 
> An example of multiple search boxes on http://www.berklix.org/
> Type in Jitsi & get
> https://www.google.com/search?q=jitsi&domains=berklix.org&sitesearch=berklix.org&btnG=Search
> I've never needed time to maintain it, it's simple & worked for decades.

PS The search box works on https://wiki.freebsd.org/  !

Cheers
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