Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:20:52 +0200 From: "Wolfram Schneider" <wosch@FreeBSD.org> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. Message-ID: <f625a9de0705101420u7b3501ffgf9c03dbc4a08e64c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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. -Wolfram -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org
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