A fair point. Apologies for the unhelpful and inflammatory response. - Thomas
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Chris DiBona <[email protected]> wrote: > > No does not reading the FAQs or seaching the group history to answer > his questions. > > Chris > - Show quoted text - > 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 >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. > Google's Open Source and Developer programs can be found at > http://code.google.com > Personal Site and Weblog: http://dibona.com > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
