Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:47:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Wilde <twilde@dyndns.com> To: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Yahoo! or Google search bar instead of search.cgi Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.63.0510101337140.4465@manganese.bos.dyndns.org>
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(Apologies for breaking threading, just joined freebsd-www so I don't have the appropriate messages for a References: header.) As I mentioned in my earlier post, I think an even bigger problem than the one Murray mentioned can be observed by the fact that a search for "kernel" returns no results at all. At DynDNS, we recently started indexing our site using ht://Dig (http://www.htdig.org/), and have been very happy with the flexibility it provides for tuning search results to get the most relevant matches. It is also a true spider, crawling the website over HTTP rather than searching on the filesystem as the current search.cgi seems to do. That said, a Google or Yahoo! search would probably be a lot easier from an implementation and maintenance standpoint. Both of them return quite reasonable result sets for "site:freebsd.org kernel" and "site:freebsd.org status reports". As a mere mortal user of the website, I'd vote for either one of these, as long as it makes the search more usable! :) Tim Wilde -- Tim Wilde twilde@dyndns.com Systems Administrator Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.com/
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