In practice I have found some problems with search on freemarker.org:

- I can't search in the API java docs.

- When I search in the Manual, I often also want hits from the API
  JavaDocs, though getting them wouldn't be logical because of the
  structure of the site.

- There's no search box on the Home tab. People my not realize that
  there's on on the Manual tab.

  So I think we need a global search box, which by default searches in
  the Manual and in the JavaDocs too. It would be a plus if it has
  "API" and "Manual" check boxes. So that would address all the point
  above.

  Where to put the global search box (layout...) is a trickier
  question. Certainly the Contribut-Report-Download thing had to go
  away to give space to it, but instead perhaps we could make them
  more apparent in the side menu (with some icons or whatever). And
  then on the Manual there will be a void in place of search... I
  don't know. Can you figure out something awesome? :)

- The search box is no re-filled after search, so I can't refine my
  search.

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Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany

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