search engine

[Stas Bekman <sb...@iil.intel.com>]

Hi,

There is a problem with the search engine we use for *.apache.org - why
it's bad - It's not serving the search needs:

I want to search for 'Apache::Registry' instead it searchs for Apache OR
Registry (even if it's AND it gives many more irrelevant hits that I want.

Today I have searched for '#line' to retrieve the script I have posted a
few months ago and I thought it was in the guide, I couldn't find it
because it searched for 'line' instead of '#line' - It strips all the
non-alphanumeric chars.

There is no power search...

About 3 weeks ago, someone suggested an external commercial search engine
to give us for free, they do all the indexing and the engine resides on
their server. Doug, said that most chances it'll be not welcomed here. No
problem with that, but we need a decent search engine. As the data we
collect grows we need to give our users a way to locate it easily. I
myself don't rememeber many times if I've included some stuff in the guide
or not, so I have to go thru the whole guide in order to check it out -
not a pleasant task.

The mailing list archive is much better! (but it doesn't know how to
process the mime attachments :(


Any ideas?

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