No does not reading the FAQs or seaching the group history to answer
his questions.

Chris

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Thomas Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I believe that the Google Code issue tracker may be a better forum for
> your problems: http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/list
>
> If these issues have been filed already, please star them and supply
> additional information as to how to reproduce the issue. You should
> include the actual search terms used, and projects that you would
> expect to see listed.
>
> In the meantime, tone down the hostility. Flaming the people who run a
> free service really doesn't help your cause.
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Fresi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was testing the project hosting search capabilities, and it seems
>> that the results are utterly retarded.
>>
>> 1. For keywords, as per the same issues seen from about 2 years ago,
>> projects that are empty (aka nothing in svn tree) are returned - why?
>> these projects if anything are just name holders furthermore how are
>> they determined to be relevant?.
>>
>> 2. Searching for specific projects names returns "Your search - XXXXX
>> - did not generate any results." when infact the project is called
>> XXXXX, one of the tags is XXXXX,  and the term XXXXX is used
>> repeatedly both in the code and wiki docs
>>
>> 3. Multi-term search results are pitiful as well, furthermore doing
>> the same searches as described above using google its self with the
>> inurl being "code.google.com" actually returns the correct results,
>> with reasonable ordering of the returned results and also code results
>> from the trunks.
>>
>> My question is this, why even have a search option when it clearly
>> doesn't work, and if you really need one, why not just use your every
>> own google as per [3] it is far better than what there currently is,
>> also why have tags when they are obviously not used as part of search,
>> also why doesn't the search capabilities provide results based on what
>> is in the svn trees of projects such as what koders does
>>
>> Another rant, looking at the past 10-15 messages on this list, why not
>> provide the ability for users to reset their accounts, I mean why does
>> it have to go through some kind of google NG? if people stuff-up and
>> delete everything bad luck, they should have known better, why get
>> invovled?
>>
>> Its pretty pitafull considering the 20% free-time google gives the
>> people running this project + the actual number of google employees
>> apart of this project - very pitafull indeed, makes me wonder have
>> people at google lost interest in this or have the people running the
>> show reached their productivity apex?
>>
>>
>> Fresi
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>



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