There is no doubt that our search could be more capable. But how about, instead of getting into the details here, we simply say that the new site should have powerful, modern search capabilities. We'll probably use some existing, off-the-shelf technology (Lucene, maybe?) for searching. And we are not going to re-invent Google. You know you can already use Google to search PerlMonks, right?

Google, and (TTBOMK) standard settings for existing off-the-shelf technology, are geared to search for words, and totally fail when you want to search for a string in which non-word characters are significant. Being able to search for posts that contain, eg, (?=...) should be a quality test for any PerlMonks search feature.

In reply to Re^8: Ideas for PerlMonks 2.0 by hv
in thread Ideas for PerlMonks 2.0 by jdporter

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