From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 20:21:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6351816A46F; Thu, 31 May 2007 20:21:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from galain.elvandar.org (galain.elvandar.org [217.148.169.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB0213C4B9; Thu, 31 May 2007 20:21:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from evilcoder.xs4all.nl ([195.64.94.120] helo=elvandar.local) by galain.elvandar.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Htr9Y-0007Zv-75; Thu, 31 May 2007 22:21:48 +0200 Message-ID: <465F2E9B.5010501@elvandar.org> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:22:51 +0200 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Simon L. Nielsen" References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <474078f80705291430u414e6261mcc203e43ea83e8bb@mail.gmail.com> <465F25A5.5000301@FreeBSD.org> <20070531195737.GB13588@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20070531195737.GB13588@zaphod.nitro.dk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Murray Stokely , Doug Barton , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:21:49 -0000 Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > 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). > I dont object. PLEASE proceed! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */