Re: [gentoo-dev] opinion on how to improve the website redesign

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 22/11/2005-03:53:22(+0100): Thomas de Grenier de Latour types
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:11:14 +0000
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:53:01AM +0100, Ingo Bormuth wrote:
> > >
> > > - Where is the "Search for ______ in section ______" field ? I
> > > would expect it somewhere on the top.  See http://php.net for a
> > > good and tiny one.
> >
> > ah, excellent idea ... we get people who ask for this from time
> > to time in bugzilla ...
>
> A good start could be to do that the quick and ugly way, thanks to
> Google (with some "site:www.gentoo.org/some/thing/" and other black
> magic in the query terms). It saves implementation of a real local
> search engine, and actually works surprinsingly fine. That's what i
> use in some ConQuery search plugins (a Firefox extension):
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-380310.html
> This screenshot shows the filters i have for www.g.o:
> http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/conquery/gentoo-simple-google-screenshot.png
> (mailing search et al. are in other plugins, but sure in the case
> of something like what is on php.net, it would be better in a
> single form)

And just in case someone decides to do it and is thinking about using
JavaScript or some other magic to add "site:gentoo.org" to the query
(the "q" parameter), you can supply "as_sitesearch" and "as_q"
parameters instead of "q":

<input type="text" name="as_q"/>
<input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" name="gentoo.org"/>

It would be cooler to get a personalized Google search, though.

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