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

    Giving someone a blank page with the message "Go away" for using quotes is pretty stupid. Any decent search engine uses quotes to search for a phrase instead of a word. It's really unprofessional to do that, too, and if I got that from a search engine like Google or Yahoo, I for sure would just find an alternative.

  4. Eh by Lazaru5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here I was hoping for a more intelligent FreeBSD.org search rather than just a result collector.

    And did you have to include Defcon1? Their articles are often outdated, inacccurate or stolen [and claimed original]. (Every offense to EFNet #FreeBSDHelp intended.)

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