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From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org>
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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

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