From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 26 9:24:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D283E37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF2C43E72 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7QGOKY01478; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:24:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g7QGOKj02246; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:24:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7QGOHo02239; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:24:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D6A5630.6050408@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:24:16 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wouter Van Hemel Cc: Michael Lucas , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improved searching for FreeBSD.org web site References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020822220010.00ab2540@pop.atomz.com> <20020823073410.B39333@blackhelicopters.org> <3D663073.40604@centtech.com> <20020823092009.A39787@blackhelicopters.org> <1030113113.208.40.camel@cocaine> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > Eric Anderson has been putting alot of work into this - and things seem to > come together quite nicely, as I already said a few weeks ago. I prefer > the 'in-house' solution much more, because of the independence. > > On the other hand, this new offer is very generous -and- useful, no matter > what reasons 'atomz' might have (and it's not fair to judge them while > they give us such a great and much needed gift). > > We have two solutions for our crappy search engine problem. This is a good > thing. I suggest we combine them: let Eric import his engine in the > website - might I suggest giving him access so he can take care of it > himself, otherwise nothing's going to happen and that's _very_ > frustrating; and put a 'smart link' with the current query at the bottom > of that engine that says something like 'alternative search engine, > generously provided by atomz'. When that link is clicked, the search > results of the commercial engine pop up. People can decide for themselves > what they use; we take advantage of both obviously much better > implementations; and we don't depend on a commercial solution - we only > have to remove the extra link on the bottom of the search engine. Did we ever come to a conclusion on this thread? Are we looking for more information, or a list of "bad things" about the old engine that need to be fixed with the new one? Also, did anyone reply to the atomz people? If so, what was the final word? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message