On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Clifford Sobchuk > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I second the motion for the search tool. I have used google with the "site:" >> form to find the >> correct commands and syntax. > > Wish granted. :-) > > The new Google-backed search feature I added is actually much better > than just using the "site:" command on plain Google because it also > includes the mailing list archives and the results appear right on our > website. > > Google already offers some amount of fuzzy search, so I guess we have > that now too.
Brilliant. However (just a tiny "however"), search results are accompanied with Google's ads. I implemented Google Custom Search for http://carbonmodel.org (a while back), and I recall checking/unchecking something which enabled me to get the search without and advertisements... I think the search is ad-free for non-profit endeavors, and PDL would certainly fit that description. > > Daniel. > -- > No trees were killed in the generation of this message. A large number > of electrons were, however, severely inconvenienced. > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
