Re: Let's play bash the search engine

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:15 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:41:38PM +0530, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> > On 12/19/06, Matthew O'Connor <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> wrote:
> > >
> > >Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > >> But seriously, I'm definitly interested in ways it can be improved - and
> > >> that's true of the whole web team, I'm sure. It was just my way of
> > >> saying "it will take a while", but I'll file it away as a good thing to
> > >> do when there is a moment of spare time.
> > >
> > >I like the way the php.net homepage has a search box on the homepage
> > >with a dropdown next to it to specify what to search.
> >
> >
> > I would recommend a set of check-boxes, so that user can select multiple
> > places to search. Eg. search in 8.2 release, 8.0 release, ans as just
> > suggested by Alvaro, pgsql-hackers mailing list also.
>
> You seriously want this in the header of every webpage?!

Checkboxes IMO are a no-op. However a drop down box is probably
reasonable.

J

>
> We still have a searchform at search.postgresql.org. To search
> mainliglists, click Archives search. You can select a list, or a group
> of list, there. Or just search them all.
>
> Now, the generic website search could be expanded to let you search
> different parts such as the docs, but we cannot possibly do that on the
> searchbox in the header.
>
> //Magnus
>
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