Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:57:38 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray.stokely@gmail.com>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. Message-ID: <20070531195737.GB13588@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <465F25A5.5000301@FreeBSD.org> References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <f625a9de0705101420u7b3501ffgf9c03dbc4a08e64c@mail.gmail.com> <474078f80705291430u414e6261mcc203e43ea83e8bb@mail.gmail.com> <465F25A5.5000301@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2007.05.31 12:44:37 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Murray Stokely wrote: > > > This can be addressed with sitemaps [1]. Y! claims ~5 million indexed > > freebsd.org pages. Do we know how many documents are in our home > > grown search corpus? > > > > I think we should switch the search bar to using google or Y!, just as > > NetBSD does. > > I think that given everything Yahoo! has given to the project, it > would be reasonable to give their engine serious consideration unless > there is a compelling reason not to. Nobody really seemed to react to my proof of concept, but I actually think it seems to work OK. It's still online at: http://people.freebsd.org/~simon/search/ I hope to polish this off, but I have been a but busy... Since I haven't heard anyone say no, I'm seriously considering just commiting this with "No objections: doc" when I get a chance to clean it up... so, speak up now if you have strong objections to this (and if you do, say what we should do instead). -- Simon L. Nielsen
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070531195737.GB13588>