Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:22:51 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray.stokely@gmail.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. Message-ID: <465F2E9B.5010501@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <20070531195737.GB13588@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <f625a9de0705101420u7b3501ffgf9c03dbc4a08e64c@mail.gmail.com> <474078f80705291430u414e6261mcc203e43ea83e8bb@mail.gmail.com> <465F25A5.5000301@FreeBSD.org> <20070531195737.GB13588@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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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! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */
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