Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 11:42:42 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using Yahoo! or Google search bar instead of search.cgi Message-ID: <20051009104242.GZ99170@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20051008182448.GH6076@freebsdmall.com> References: <20051008182448.GH6076@freebsdmall.com>
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--kUmJ0kIGcKOYePjT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:24:48AM -0700, 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. >=20 > Is there any reason not to ditch search.cgi and move to a Yahoo! > search bar for the site? I would prefer Google (though I fully understand that politically we should go for Yahoo!). I'd also prefer it if we looked at this as an interim solution. And a pony ;) Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --kUmJ0kIGcKOYePjT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDSPQiocfcwTS3JF8RAtXjAJ90oQ3v9BxukDQGXToftsynDsbNFgCfVuKa +rbkVajw10g/P4kA/LoWK54= =ggvu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kUmJ0kIGcKOYePjT--
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