Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:24:16 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@pair.com> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improved searching for FreeBSD.org web site Message-ID: <3D6A5630.6050408@centtech.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020822220010.00ab2540@pop.atomz.com> <20020823073410.B39333@blackhelicopters.org> <3D663073.40604@centtech.com> <20020823092009.A39787@blackhelicopters.org> <1030113113.208.40.camel@cocaine>
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Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > Eric Anderson has been putting alot of work into this - and things seem to > come together quite nicely, as I already said a few weeks ago. I prefer > the 'in-house' solution much more, because of the independence. > > On the other hand, this new offer is very generous -and- useful, no matter > what reasons 'atomz' might have (and it's not fair to judge them while > they give us such a great and much needed gift). > > We have two solutions for our crappy search engine problem. This is a good > thing. I suggest we combine them: let Eric import his engine in the > website - might I suggest giving him access so he can take care of it > himself, otherwise nothing's going to happen and that's _very_ > frustrating; and put a 'smart link' with the current query at the bottom > of that engine that says something like 'alternative search engine, > generously provided by atomz'. When that link is clicked, the search > results of the commercial engine pop up. People can decide for themselves > what they use; we take advantage of both obviously much better > implementations; and we don't depend on a commercial solution - we only > have to remove the extra link on the bottom of the search engine. Did we ever come to a conclusion on this thread? Are we looking for more information, or a list of "bad things" about the old engine that need to be fixed with the new one? Also, did anyone reply to the atomz people? If so, what was the final word? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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