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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. Use get rather than post by quinto2000 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Search engine queries should be sent using GET rather than POST. This lets people bookmark the search results, which is very important.

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    Ceci n'est pas un post
  2. It's works good, but hats it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have done a few searches and it does give relevant results, which I certainly like. However, it's a little on the ugly side. Try using different colours and art and I will give it my seal of approval.

    -Craig

    1. Re:It's works good, but hats it by petef · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Suggestions as to which colors would be better?

  3. What about other BSD sites? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    First of all, great work. FreeBSD (and the others) will benefit greatly from this!

    The only problem I have is that you're only searching "major FreeBSD search engines." Now, I know it's a beta, but there is quite a lot of other sites that, while not being a search engine, have contributed to the advancement of FreeBSD. Examples: Daemonnews's Search Page FreeBSDDiary, BSDToday, and of course Slashdot!. You might also think about adding newgroups, discussions, etc. Don't forget that the other BSD sites can also provide information that covers FreeBSD. Don't think they're "not worthy."

    Keep up the good work!