I stumbled across <https://www.freebsd.org/search/> amongst my forgotten open tabs from months ago. Captured a few weeks ago: <https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053005/https://www.freebsd.org/search/> It's a useful page, however I have no idea how I got there; I suspect that it's obscure. From its sidebar, with 'About' at the head, I wondered whether it's in the About area, however the word 'search' is nowhere in the body or sidebar of <https://www.freebsd.org/about/>.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0) I'd expect to find that page linked from web resources and or support, at least. Tangentially, a site map would be nice to have as well IMO.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0) > … I have no idea how I got there; … Discovery might have been: 1. <https://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists/> 2. You can search or browse the mailing list archives. At the current time, archives prior to May 2021 are in a separate archive. 3. click 'search' 4. <https://www.freebsd.org/search/#mailinglists> 5. manually remove the anchor from the tail of the URL 6. load. Years passed before I discovered the /search/ page, probably because I nearly always use Google for tightly focused search results.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0) > … I have no idea how I got there; … Ah, probably via <https://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies/>, the second of the two 'search' links under 'Questions and Support'. As a side note, I almost never clicked the 'New to FreeBSD?' button, at the home page, because I used PC-BSD and TrueOS (and so, largely avoided the FreeBSD site) for years before I switched to installing FreeBSD. I never thought of myself as new. Back on topic: I reckon, there should be an unmistakable link from the home page, to the search page.
The page https://www.freebsd.org/search/ should be splitted into two parts, 1) By the FreeBSD.org web site and 2) external search services. I don't think we need a search form for Manual Page or Ports here, that's confusing. Just a link to the search service.