HI Christian. Actually, we've been using Google's search for our front-page site-wide search for years. Our internally-developed Lucene search has always been on the individual lists and still is. So we've never had Lucene search parameter controls on that site-wide search.
The only change that took place was Google required us to update the search box code we use on the front page, and now it has that Google Custom Search logo, and ads are now showing on the right side of the search results. The old site-wide search had Google's ads above the message search results and we thought getting them off to the side was less intrusive. It's unfortunate that Google insists on having their logo on our front-page search box now and I'm trying to reach a Google rep to see what we can do about that. As for the ads on the site-wide search results we'd prefer to turn them off completely since they kind of get in the way and only generate a few dollars anyway. The reason we went with Google's search for our site-wide results years ago is because we couldn't efficiently generate a Lucene index that spans all messages across all lists. Perhaps it's time for us to revisit this now that we aren't particularly happy with the Google logo or the change in ad display requirements. Jeff On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Christian Lohmaier < lohma...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi *, > > what I always liked about mail-archive.com was its powerful search, > but it seems it has been replaced by a google search, that doesn't > support the lucene parameters anymore. > > The first change to the worse since I've been using mail-archive.com > > So if this is a permanent change (the message back in November last year > http://www.mail-archive.com/gossip@jab.org/msg01352.html > sounded that while there was a problem, work is towards reenabling the > feature), please update the FAQ wrt. search syntax accordingly. > > Thankfully perl-list search is still using lucene search, but > searching multiple/all lists is where the more powerful search syntax > is most helpful... > > ciao > Christian > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org. >
