[Bug 261039] The /search/ page is useful, but obscure

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--- Comment #4 from Wolfram Schneider  ---
The page https://www.freebsd.org/search/ should be splitted into two parts, 1)
By the FreeBSD.org web site and 2) external search services.

I don't think we need a search form for Manual Page or Ports here, that's
confusing. Just a link to the search service.

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--- Comment #3 from Graham Perrin  ---
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> … I have no idea how I got there; …

Ah, probably via , the second of the
two 'search' links under 'Questions and Support'. 

As a side note, I almost never clicked the 'New to FreeBSD?' button, at the
home page, because I used PC-BSD and TrueOS (and so, largely avoided the
FreeBSD site) for years before I switched to installing FreeBSD. I never
thought of myself as new. 

Back on topic: I reckon, there should be an unmistakable link from the home
page, to the search page.

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--- Comment #2 from Graham Perrin  ---
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> … I have no idea how I got there; …

Discovery might have been: 

1. 

2. You can search or browse the mailing list archives. At the 
   current time, archives prior to May 2021 are in a separate archive.

3. click 'search'

4. 

5. manually remove the anchor from the tail of the URL

6. load. 

Years passed before I discovered the /search/ page, probably because I nearly
always use Google for tightly focused search results.

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Bug ID: 261039
   Summary: The /search/ page is useful, but obscure
   Product: Documentation
   Version: Latest
  Hardware: Any
   URL: https://www.freebsd.org/search/
OS: Any
Status: New
  Severity: Affects Some People
  Priority: ---
 Component: Website
  Assignee: d...@freebsd.org
  Reporter: grahamper...@gmail.com

I stumbled across  amongst my forgotten open
tabs from months ago. 

Captured a few weeks ago:


It's a useful page, however I have no idea how I got there; I suspect that it's
obscure. 

>From its sidebar, with 'About' at the head, I wondered whether it's in the
About area, however the word 'search' is nowhere in the body or sidebar of
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