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Beta FreeBSD Search Engine

Posted by michael on from the locate-a-booth-babe-near-you dept.

petef writes "In my spare time, I've been buildling a FreeBSD Search Engine. I am hoping it will be of use to everyone; it pulls the top 3 search results off some major search engines (FreeBSD.org, google.com/bsd, etc). I'm looking for people to give it a run and give me some feedback on it. Thanks!"

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  1. Okaaaaay by __aafkqj3628 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks ok for use, but I hate the color scheme there.
    Perhaps change the scheme and get some more word out there!

  2. MAJOR issue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Cute, cute cute lil devil icon there. DEFINATELY keep it. But would you PLEASE put it somewhere OTHER than where it blocks the input field and the 'submit' button?

    Btw, I'm using mozilla 1.0 thanks. :)

    1. Re:MAJOR issue by petef · · Score: 2, Informative

      It was some troll playing with html in the last 5 searches, I've setup some filters so that doesn't happen anymore. :)

  3. Re:Use get rather than post by petef · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thanks for the advice, I've fixed it to use GET instead.

  4. Re:Go away. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is a "me too" post, but I must agree with the AC. I do not appreciate being told to go away for using a search query method that is acceptable on every search engine I have ever used. I suppose this is part of a Reg-Ex filter you have recently put in place to curtail search string abuses, but it is really annoying and should be fixed.

    On the positive side, a boutique search engine is a great way to focus the results and elimanate many irrelevant results. I think you are on the right track, keep working on it.

  5. Re:Go away. by petef · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gotcha. Like I said, this is in beta, and this is exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for. Way too tired yesterday and forgot " and ' are reasonable search terms... it's on my to-fix list.

  6. Re:It's works good, but hats it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    No black.

    White background
    Some blue here and there. maybe some green.

    make it easy on the eyes.