Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:21:16 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. Message-ID: <200705101421.16420.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070510170755.GB1835@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070510170755.GB1835@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Thursday 10 May 2007 01:07:57 pm Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > 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. Then perhaps we should at least turn it off for now until we can fix it? -- John Baldwin
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