From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 20:11:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 3E81816A41F; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:11:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wosch@FreeBSD.org) Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A20F43D48; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:11:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wosch@FreeBSD.org) Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j9BKB4mA089731; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:11:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id j9BKB487089730; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:11:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.0.104] (plum.panke.de.freebsd.org [192.168.0.104]) by paula.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j9BK7BwZ014938; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:07:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <434C1B5D.303@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:06:53 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Stokely References: <20051008182448.GH6076@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20051008182448.GH6076@freebsdmall.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org 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: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:11:06 -0000 Murray Stokely wrote: >The recent mail about not being able to find the status reports page >points out how useless our search box is. In this case a search for >'status reports' will have the correct link in the third position, >which is actually better than most queries. There should be loads of >'status reports' anchor text pointing to that page so more advanced >search engines would rank it first. > >Is there any reason not to ditch search.cgi and move to a Yahoo! >search bar for the site? > > you know that search engines like yahoo or google index only 1/5 - 1/2 of a typical web site?! If a problem occurs, you have to wait until the next update - your are offline for at least 30 days. Search engines are always out of date and incomplete. If you ditch search.cgi, our users will not get all information and get only old pages (the state of the web site 30-100 days ago) -Wolfram -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org