From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 21:49:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C9216A404 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 21:49:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wschnr@googlemail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D3C13C484 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 21:49:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wschnr@googlemail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so801697nze for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 14:49:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=um9II1mwG2OcZnoTulIXN4WOZSiSDUyTCtETgc2Dho3D/oOK+TT8IGW+PPND6GJk/OfGSRzuwJfTtPd2+mCdAZAPOFeRdNPWXj7BrA5YZQ2HVdVtRwkU1vfL5hqe6R2jZXrKsDqevmWDMsrAwOqLA+HHs1V7ssBmqGNQ3Vl0nhU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=bsgEvt+50fvB33t3AHHz/7iAlyW74lZHk6Ni8ygn6c1AxbX9LYSnv91dDjYW+BQzaeSkB+W8jHlU2VW7Z+KmMZrkhVrmQWtm8BuOxvqKz+s/cfP2rhkVT6ACTRmK40I0sHaRdR9eOo7VLbRnDzvlordtDwte8AjOwtJohPNuM6E= Received: by 10.114.190.6 with SMTP id n6mr696392waf.1178832052554; Thu, 10 May 2007 14:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.147.5 with HTTP; Thu, 10 May 2007 14:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:20:52 +0200 From: "Wolfram Schneider" Sender: wschnr@googlemail.com To: "John Baldwin" In-Reply-To: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7e597cf610075891 Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 21:49:06 -0000 On 5/10/07, John Baldwin wrote: > SUCKS/BLOWS CHUNKS/etc. > > Really, it's bad. I just typed in 'logo' to find the page about logo usage, > and it returned 0 results, not even http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html. That's > exceedingly lame. You typed an evil query which crashed the search program with signal 11. ('logos' works fine). The search program was written long time ago in C, a language with a terrible memory management. You have to spend half of your development time fixing memory leaks and off-by-one buffer bugs. 15 years ago nobody cared about bad C programming style. Feel free to debug our search program. I don't have the time myself. > Its worse than having no search box at all because people > will try to _use_ it and then get frustrated. It should either be killed, or > it should be replaced with something that actually _works_ (probably it > should make use of Y!, Google, or Rambler.ru something to do the search). you know how few pages are indexed by google? Usually less than 10-50% of a web site. -Wolfram -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org