From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 19:44:40 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 92A0216A421 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 19:44:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3482913C4AD for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 19:44:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9661 invoked by uid 399); 31 May 2007 19:44:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 May 2007 19:44:39 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <465F25A5.5000301@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:44:37 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070525) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Stokely References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <474078f80705291430u414e6261mcc203e43ea83e8bb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <474078f80705291430u414e6261mcc203e43ea83e8bb@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 31 May 2007 19:44:40 -0000 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. I also agree with John that the current one is probably the worst part of an otherwise excellent site. I've avoided saying anything about it since I don't have time to offer a better solution. Doug (Former Yahoo! employee) -- This .signature sanitized for your protection