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Posted to docs@httpd.apache.org by Cliff Woolley <jw...@virginia.edu> on 2002/11/17 22:46:12 UTC
Re: Search on docs page?
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Rich Bowen wrote:
> I missed when the search thingy got put on the top of the /docs-2.0/
> page. Can we either update the data that is getting searched, or remove
> that? Searching for vhost, for example, gives a bunch of 1.3 docs, which
> is rather unintuitive for someone on the 2.0 documentation site. Is
> there any chance that we can just do a google search, limited to a
> certain URL-space? Seems that we'd get more meaningful results.
+1 to using google (yes, they let you do that)
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Re: Search on docs page?
Posted by Erik Abele <er...@codefaktor.de>.
great idea!
A nice example of this is forrest's integrated google searchbox; to see
it live, point your browser to http://xml.apache.org/
cheers,
Erik
Joshua Slive wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Cliff Woolley wrote:
>
>
>>On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Rich Bowen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I missed when the search thingy got put on the top of the /docs-2.0/
>>>page. Can we either update the data that is getting searched, or remove
>>>that? Searching for vhost, for example, gives a bunch of 1.3 docs, which
>>>is rather unintuitive for someone on the 2.0 documentation site. Is
>>>there any chance that we can just do a google search, limited to a
>>>certain URL-space? Seems that we'd get more meaningful results.
>>
>>+1 to using google (yes, they let you do that)
>
>
> I'm in favor of that as well. There is one little issue: If we just
> throw up a form on the page that does a restricted google search, google
> will serve adds on the results pages. If we don't care about that, then
> fine. If we do care, then we could contact google to see if they would
> remove them for us.
>
> (Another issue is that google only updates its index once a month or so,
> while the apache.org search engine is updated more frequently. But the
> improved quality of results is probably worth it.)
>
> Joshua.
>
>
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Re: Search on docs page?
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Joshua Slive wrote:
>
> > will serve adds on the results pages. If we don't care about that, then
> > fine. If we do care, then we could contact google to see if they would
> > remove them for us.
>
> Doesn't google have just such a thing for nonprofits and educationals? I
> believe they do.
For universities, yes. I know of no such thing for non-profits in
general. But we can always ask.
Joshua.
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Re: Search on docs page?
Posted by Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>.
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Joshua Slive wrote:
>
> > will serve adds on the results pages. If we don't care about that, then
> > fine. If we do care, then we could contact google to see if they would
> > remove them for us.
>
> Doesn't google have just such a thing for nonprofits and educationals? I
> believe they do.
I'll make a note to look into this, and report back.
--
Rich Bowen
Apache - mod_perl - Perl - CGI
http://www.ApacheAdmin.com/
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Re: Search on docs page?
Posted by Cliff Woolley <jw...@virginia.edu>.
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Joshua Slive wrote:
> will serve adds on the results pages. If we don't care about that, then
> fine. If we do care, then we could contact google to see if they would
> remove them for us.
Doesn't google have just such a thing for nonprofits and educationals? I
believe they do.
--Cliff
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Re: Search on docs page?
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
> > I missed when the search thingy got put on the top of the /docs-2.0/
> > page. Can we either update the data that is getting searched, or remove
> > that? Searching for vhost, for example, gives a bunch of 1.3 docs, which
> > is rather unintuitive for someone on the 2.0 documentation site. Is
> > there any chance that we can just do a google search, limited to a
> > certain URL-space? Seems that we'd get more meaningful results.
>
> +1 to using google (yes, they let you do that)
I'm in favor of that as well. There is one little issue: If we just
throw up a form on the page that does a restricted google search, google
will serve adds on the results pages. If we don't care about that, then
fine. If we do care, then we could contact google to see if they would
remove them for us.
(Another issue is that google only updates its index once a month or so,
while the apache.org search engine is updated more frequently. But the
improved quality of results is probably worth it.)
Joshua.
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