Re: request: search engine for PostgreSQL site

On January 22, 2005 05:27 pm, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Robert Bernier
> > Sent: 22 January 2005 22:17
> > To: Tom Lane
> > Cc: John Hansen; maillist(at)shauny(dot)de; pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] request: search engine for PostgreSQL site
> >
> > > Why would you think that should be the default?
> >
> > People search because they want help and help is found by
> > looking at what
> > other people have to say about a given issue.
>
> The docs are always the first place I look, as they are the
> authoritative source of published information.
>
> However, the searches are context sensitive, they do not try to think
> for you - for example, if you seach from a docs page, you get results
> from that doc set. If you search from the archives, you get results for
> the archives. If you search from the main site, you get results from
> that site. Having the searches return results only from some site other
> than the one the user searches from (event if just a default option)
> will just confuse people.

ah, and that's the difference. One may think of looking of docs while another
will want to look at mail archives. People know enough to go to the site but
not understand there's a difference in search.

Let's test and find out what approach is the most popular. Design the front
page search to explicitly explain and favor a particular approach and then
track what happens.

>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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