Richard Jones wrote: > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 01:51, Ian Bicking wrote: >> Can we please get the search back? > > If someone writes it, sure. The old search was far less useful that the > Google > search is now.
I thought my email outlined why the Google search is completely useless. To summarize: it's useless. The old search was a little awkward, but it worked. Simply putting it back as it was would be a step forward. And actually the only improvement I'd like to see in the old search is a way to search all fields at once, and then a search form on the front page -- but even without these the search is functional. Well, if we wanted to be really fancy we'd want a full text indexer in the database, which probably isn't installed, and then create a field that contained the full text of each entry by simply concatenating items, and probably giving weight to some metadata by doing something scrappy like: full_text = title + title + keywords + keywords + topics + topics + description Otherwise if we are sticking with Google, cheese shop at least needs to tell google not to index the browse pages. And probably needs to give google a sitemap so it will index all the packages more prompty, as it's not indexing nearly often enough right now. -- Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
