Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:22:20 -0000 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. Message-ID: <20070513132842.50f9c1d5.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070513095511.GA5541@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070510170755.GB1835@zaphod.nitro.dk> <200705101421.16420.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070513095511.GA5541@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 13:55:13 +0400 "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2007.05.10 14:21:16 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday 10 May 2007 01:07:57 pm Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > > On 2007.05.10 11:46:56 -0400, 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. 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). > > > > > > I think most people agree with that, the problem is that it takes some > > > time to get right and there currently aren't that many active doc > > > committers since they over time seem to gravitate towards src... > > > > > > doc are unfortunatly not as good as src, and even more ports, at > > > getting new people. > > > > Then perhaps we should at least turn it off for now until we can fix it? > > I'm not really up to something like that unless there is strong > support for that... but > > I had something else to do today, so to avoid doing that I got to play > around a bit with Y! Search :-). > > This is just a proof-of-concept, which certainly needs to be tweaked > more etc, but it seems to work: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~simon/search/ > > I know more elaborate solutions has been suggeted, but the advantage > of this setup is that it's rather simple to do. > > Is this the way to go? > > Note: I have to read over the terms a few more times to be sure you > are allowed to embed the search box like that into the site, but I > think it's OK from how I read it. > > -- > Simon L. Nielsen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Tom Rhodes
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