Alan Burlison wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Are there any plans to replace the search engine at > > http://www.opensolaris.org/isearch.jspa with something which works a bit > > better before the CommunityOne conference (and link it to the front page > > with a "search opensolaris.org"-link) ? > > To provide a little more detail: the current search engine is embedded > inside the application that runs the portal, so whenever a page is > edited it is reindexed. In addition, the entire site is reindexed > nightly, so that changes to other parts of the portal such as Jive can > be indexed. This means that it is very difficult to do anything major > with the current site search, as it is embedded inside the application > itself. We are planning to move away from the current portal software, > and at that point we would also look to provide a new search mechanism, > most probably as a stand-alone function so we can add other stuff into > the index, such as genunix and the various distro sites. > > We might consider using google if we can get it to index multiple > domains & present the results as a single result set, or we may consider > using one of the open source search engine packages that's available.
Ok... but IMO it may be nice to find something like the Clusty auto-categorising stuff - it helps a lot with navigation in the depths of the (slightly ?) chaotic layout of opensolaris.org pages... ... and IMO we need to do _something_ before CommunityOne... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
