Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:30:00 -0700 From: "Murray Stokely" <murray.stokely@gmail.com> To: "Wolfram Schneider" <wosch@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. Message-ID: <474078f80705291430u414e6261mcc203e43ea83e8bb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f625a9de0705101420u7b3501ffgf9c03dbc4a08e64c@mail.gmail.com> References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <f625a9de0705101420u7b3501ffgf9c03dbc4a08e64c@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/10/07, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 5/10/07, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 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. > > You typed an evil query which crashed the search program with signal 11. > ('logos' works fine). > > The search program was written long time ago in C, a language with > a terrible memory management. You have to spend half of your > development time fixing memory leaks and off-by-one buffer bugs. 15 > years ago nobody cared about bad C programming style. > > Feel free to debug our search program. I don't have the time myself. > > > 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). > > you know how few pages are indexed by google? Usually less than 10-50% > of a web site. 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. - Murray [1] http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
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