From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 17:47:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: www@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5257B16A41F for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:47:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from twilde@dyndns.com) Received: from manganese.bos.dyndns.org (manganese.bos.dyndns.org [63.208.196.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19B143D48 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:47:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from twilde@dyndns.com) Received: from manganese.bos.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manganese.bos.dyndns.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j9AHljd2034006 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:47:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from twilde@dyndns.com) Received: from localhost (twilde@localhost) by manganese.bos.dyndns.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id j9AHljBk034003 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:47:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from twilde@dyndns.com) X-Authentication-Warning: manganese.bos.dyndns.org: twilde owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:47:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Wilde X-X-Sender: twilde@manganese.bos.dyndns.org To: www@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: -1.985 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_40 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 63.208.196.3 Cc: Subject: Re: Using Yahoo! or Google search bar instead of search.cgi X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:47:47 -0000 (Apologies for breaking threading, just joined freebsd-www so I don't have the appropriate messages for a References: header.) As I mentioned in my earlier post, I think an even bigger problem than the one Murray mentioned can be observed by the fact that a search for "kernel" returns no results at all. At DynDNS, we recently started indexing our site using ht://Dig (http://www.htdig.org/), and have been very happy with the flexibility it provides for tuning search results to get the most relevant matches. It is also a true spider, crawling the website over HTTP rather than searching on the filesystem as the current search.cgi seems to do. That said, a Google or Yahoo! search would probably be a lot easier from an implementation and maintenance standpoint. Both of them return quite reasonable result sets for "site:freebsd.org kernel" and "site:freebsd.org status reports". As a mere mortal user of the website, I'd vote for either one of these, as long as it makes the search more usable! :) Tim Wilde -- Tim Wilde twilde@dyndns.com Systems Administrator Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.com/