From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 11 14:47:12 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 AA70037B400; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C2243E3B; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:47:06 -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+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8BLl3k03260; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:47:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g8BLl3814464; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:47:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8BLl0o14457; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:47:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D7FB99A.10100@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:46:02 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020513 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton 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> <20020827073848.GB65406@clan.nothing-going-on.org> 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 Nik Clayton wrote: > Eric, > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:54:11AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>Actually, I guess I'm a little bitter by this. I spent a lot of time in >>the recent past working on a search engine replacement for FreeBSD.org, and >>even asked for comments and suggestions on this list >>(http://www.sprawler.com for beta testing). I also repeatedly asked how I >>can get it in a "test mode" kind of set up to see how well people enjoy it, >>with NO RESPONSES. > > > I could've sworn I'd sent you a 'excellent work' e-mail. > > If not, excellent work. > > My gripes are: > > 1. I'd like to limit the language of documents that are searched. > I don't need to see the German or French documents, for example. > > 2. When we use this to search the mailing list archives, we're going > to need a way to search by date range, and to order the results > by date (and quite possibly by mailing list as well). Still working on 1 and 2... > 3. Links don't work properly in 'found' documents. If a search > returns a match to a page that's part of the Handbook (say) then > the 'Next' and 'Prev' links that form part of the Handbook > navigation don't work when you're looking at the page. Should be fixed now.. Can you do a few more tests? > 4. In the 'Results' page, it's not clear what's a link and what > isn't, because of the colours used. The only thing that looks > like a link is the 'HIGHLIGHTED' text. I had to scrub the mouse > over the page titles to see that they were links as well. Ok, should be more clear now, and I kept some of the "FreeBSD" colors too. Let me know if this helps any.. > I'll send you a separate e-mail to talk about getting this in to test > mode on the FreeBSD site. I'm pretty much ready to do some testing, and I've managed to squeeze the indexes down to about half the size of the data being indexed, all while speeding up the indexing process too. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message