Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 20:44:56 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> 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: <20051008184455.GB889@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20051008182448.GH6076@freebsdmall.com> References: <20051008182448.GH6076@freebsdmall.com>
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--RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005.10.08 11:24:48 -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? Well, in general I would prefer if we didn't have to rely on somebody else for searching, but given that our search system has been... not too useful for a long time, I would welcome any improvements, especially if it came with patches ;-). In short: Go for it! :-) (Note: I haven't actually seen Yahoo!'s search thing for individual web sites, but I assume it's better than our current search system). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDSBOnh9pcDSc1mlERAjfSAJ90oSBDa3+jXhn3Qc7p3EezgAbPsACfX189 E1skAVk2AsoWywai/8sbYvY= =BTSE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS--
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