Bug 103522

Summary:	Search interface oddity
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Joseph Koshy <jkoshy>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	bcr
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Joseph Koshy freebsd_committer

2006-09-23 17:00:43 UTC

Searching for 'FreeBSD' using the search box returns 'Nothing found'.

  <snip>
  Search Results
  The archive www contains the following items relevant to `FreeBSD':

  Didn't get what you expected? Look here for searching hints.

  Return to the search page
  Nothing found.
  </snip>

How-To-Repeat: Use the search box at the website.

Comment 1 Daniel Gerzo freebsd_committer

2006-09-23 17:24:33 UTC

Hello Joseph,

Saturday, September 23, 2006, 5:56:48 PM, you wrote:

>>Number:         103522
>>Category:       www
>>Synopsis:       Search interface oddity

> Searching for 'FreeBSD' using the search box returns 'Nothing found'.

Ah well, the search box is really broken, I think we should finally
switch to google/yahoo search as proposed in the past...

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel                            mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org

Comment 2 Simon L. B. Nielsen freebsd_committer

2006-09-23 18:21:50 UTC

On 2006.09.23 18:24:33 +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Hello Joseph,
> 
> Saturday, September 23, 2006, 5:56:48 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >>Number:         103522
> >>Category:       www
> >>Synopsis:       Search interface oddity
> 
> > Searching for 'FreeBSD' using the search box returns 'Nothing found'.
> 
> Ah well, the search box is really broken, I think we should finally
> switch to google/yahoo search as proposed in the past...

When I looked at Yahoo! search last (probably ~6 months ago) it was
only possible to set it to limit the first search to freebsd.org, but
subsequent searches where generic, which is not really optimal.

For reasons, which has been discussed many times before, I don't
really think using Google search is an option.

It would be great if somebody could improve our current search
solution which, despite wosch's hard work on it, still seem to have
problems often.  Rambler has also offered that we could probably use
their system for search, but unfortunately I haven't had time too look
more at that.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen

Comment 3 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer

2009-11-05 13:23:14 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->suspended

I do not believe that we will resolve this soon from 
now.  Suspend the ticket till someone can resolve this

Comment 4 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer

2015-07-26 08:20:40 UTC

The search box has been fixed a while ago to use DuckDuckGo. When I enter "FreeBSD", I get a nice list of FreeBSD-related webpages from the project. Hence I consider the bug to be fixed. PR closed.