On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 8:58 AM Alexey Romanenko <aromanenko....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback. > > At the time, using a Google website search was a simplest solution since, > before, we didn’t have a search at all. I agree that it could be > frustrating to have ad links before the actual results (not sure that we > can avoid them there) but "it is what it is” and it's still possible to > have the correct links further which is better than nothing. > > Beam community is always welcome for suggestions and, especially, > contributions to improve the project in any possible way. I’d be happy to > assist on this topic if someone will decide to improve Beam website search. > +1, PRs welcome :) I put some specific suggestions for a replacement in the issue, based on recommendations from the hugo docs [1]. [1] https://gohugo.io/tools/search/ > > — > Alexey > > On 3 Oct 2022, at 23:21, Borris <bor...@chaos.org.uk> wrote: > > This is my experience of trying the search capability. > > - I know I want to read about dataframes (I was reading this 10 > minutes ago but browsing history didn't take me back to where I wanted) > - I search for "dataframes" > - I am presented with a whole load of pages that are elsewhere (other > sites) - maybe what I want is some pages below, but I stop at this point as > I think its a fundamental failure of what I expect from the search dialogue > - If I enter "beam.apache.org: dataframe" to the search dialogue then > the sensible relevant page is now visible, only 5 links down > - I know this may be a penalty of getting a "free" search service from > your viewpoint > - But from my viewpoint this is a failure. Your search capability > fails to understand that by searching for something on your site, rather > than generically through a search engine, I am massively predisposed to the > pages on your site, whereas the search results are more predisposed to > offering advertising opportunities. > - It is very frustrating that something as simple as, on the Beam > site, going to the page about Beam Dataframes takes such a level of hoop > jumping > > That is my feedback offering. Thank you for taking the time to read it. > > > > >
