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Subject: misc/21716: The site search results *suck*.
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>Number:         21716
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       The site search results *suck*.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 02 21:40:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Meyer
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Meyer Consulting
>Environment:

	http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html

>Description:

	The results returned by the web search engine are nearly
	useless for figuring out which thing to look at, They consist
	of the URL, the score (whatever the hell that is), lines
	(presumably the length of the source file in lines, which
	meaningless for an HTML file), what looks like it might be a
	date of some kind, and the archive it came from (which is
	always www for web site searches).

	Ok, for mail list searches, it's actually useful - you get the
	the author and subject (though there is no clear deliniation
	between them), and the archive is the mail list.
	
	The other "search" features have radically different
	interfaces.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Go to http://www.freebsd.org/, and enter some random word
	("disk" works well) in the search gadget and hit go. Observe
	the URLs.

>Fix:

	At the very least, dig the Title out of the HTML document
	being indexed! If you have HTML documents without titles, or
	so ill-formed that they can't reasonably be found, that's a
	different problem.



>Release-Note:
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