On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/26/02 9:17 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Searching doesn't belong inside of a list archiver that has a web > > interface -- why do the same work twice? There are half a dozen or > > more web search engine packages which can be pointed at that interface, > > right? > > This is a discussion we had early on at apple. You'll notice if you look > closely that apple's list archives are not available through apple's > corporate search engine, and lists has its own search engine. > > Why? Because of focus. People going to www.apple.com don't want to be > sidetracked having to wade through hits in the archives looking for what > they want on the main site. Loading in the archives really hurts being able > to find stuff in BOTH data sets. My opinion is that archives should not be > generically lumped in with the rest of the web site in a single browser, > because our tests and studies have shown it reduces the efficiency in > finding stuff in both. They're really disjoint data sets. > > So my feeling is a list server archive ought to be an independent search > engine, and our tests back that up. If someone goes to www.apple.com and > wants to find the latest java updater for MacOS X, they don't really want > 100 postings from Java-dev to pop up and annoy them.
No argument there, though *my* personal preferred approach is to have the same search engine do all the work, and have a set of checkboxes for domain selection, with a properly chosen default... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
