On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:39:27 -0300 Ary Borenszweig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry for brining this topic again, but there's something that really > worries me (not that I cannot sleep at night, but...) > > Take this page: > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/function.html > > There are some big headers there: "pure functions", "nothrow > functions", "ref functions", "virtual functions", "Function > Inheritance and Overriding", "Function Overloading", etc. > > Searching *any* of those phrases (without the quotes) leads to > results other than that page. Searching them with quotes further > restrict the results, sometimes resulting in none. > > Maybe that specific page is not being indexed by that search box. But > it doesn't seem to be the case. I tried other random searches over > other page headers: > > - "Linkage Attribute" in > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/attribute.html: not what I was > looking for. > - "Properties for Floating Point Types" in > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/property.html: not what I was > looking for. > - "Class Properties" in http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/class.html: > not what I was looking for. > - getVirtualFunctions in > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/traits.html: found it. > - "Order Of Evaluation" in > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/expression.html: no... > > I'm starting to think that some pages aren't being indexed. For > example in http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/expression.html there's > this phrase: "The following binary expressions are evaluated in an > implementation-defined order". When I search it, with quotes, it > leads to www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/.../std_algorithm.html (not what I > was looking for) > > However, when searching that same phrase in Google (not the Goolge > search-box in digitalmars.com/d), the first result is the expression > page for D2, the second is the same one for D1, etc. > > Should I report a bug for this? I wanted to discuss it here first > because maybe somebody knows what's going on... You will probably find that when you have the correctly constructed query google is also easier to find things on the news groups. I also find google the easiest way to find anything on any site so I just use google otherwise I would be very busy reporting bugs / suggestions to every site I have ever searched.
