From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 17:26:16 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 565BA16A402; Thu, 10 May 2007 17:26:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@benji.nitro.dk) Received: from mx.nitro.dk (zarniwoop.nitro.dk [83.92.207.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1046113C455; Thu, 10 May 2007 17:26:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@benji.nitro.dk) Received: from benji.nitro.dk (unknown [192.168.3.39]) by mx.nitro.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8B92D4C0E; Thu, 10 May 2007 17:08:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by benji.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 3123BFE0F; Thu, 10 May 2007 21:07:57 +0400 (GST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 21:07:57 +0400 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20070510170755.GB1835@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: 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, 10 May 2007 17:26:16 -0000 On 2007.05.10 11:46:56 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > SUCKS/BLOWS CHUNKS/etc. > > Really, it's bad. I just typed in 'logo' to find the page about logo usage, > and it returned 0 results, not even http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html. That's > exceedingly lame. Its worse than having no search box at all because people > will try to _use_ it and then get frustrated. It should either be killed, or > it should be replaced with something that actually _works_ (probably it > should make use of Y!, Google, or Rambler.ru something to do the search). I think most people agree with that, the problem is that it takes some time to get right and there currently aren't that many active doc committers since they over time seem to gravitate towards src... doc are unfortunatly not as good as src, and even more ports, at getting new people. -- Simon Who is gravitated towards other things for a while....