Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 04:25:51 -0400 From: Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improved searching for FreeBSD.org web site Message-ID: <20020827082551.GB74740@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> In-Reply-To: <20020827073848.GB65406@clan.nothing-going-on.org> 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>
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* Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> [2002-08-27 03:39]: > 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. Hmmm... as an American living in Europe, I'd like to suggest that we make multiple languages available. It's quite common for folks here to speak/read/write 3 or more languages so all results might be of interest. Perhaps we can include a language button, or sort the results by language. > > 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). > > 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. > > 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. > All others agreed. > I'll send you a separate e-mail to talk about getting this in to test > mode on the FreeBSD site. > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) > \/ \ ^ > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/_) jpb === To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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