From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 22:11:26 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 2D14B16A400; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:11:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F5A13C44C; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:11:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4AMBNAO003084; Thu, 10 May 2007 18:11:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: "Wolfram Schneider" Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 18:10:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705101810.32759.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 10 May 2007 18:11:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/3225/Thu May 10 04:08:21 2007 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx 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 22:11:26 -0000 On Thursday 10 May 2007 05:20:52 pm Wolfram Schneider wrote: > 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. I think this is another reason why we should just use someone else's search service instead of rolling our own. We simply don't have the resources to maintain our own custom engine and haven't for years now. > > 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. Searching for "freebsd logo" on both Google and Y! broght up logo.html as the first result. -- John Baldwin