It was too much hassle. We couldn't get access to a full database dump, but had to spider the site incrementally. The PerlMonks powers-that-be wouldn't grant access to node rep, which would have been highly useful in improving relevancy and user satisfaction; presumably if we had acquired access, that would have necessitated another round of spidering. Dmitri dropped out.

I'm no longer a consultant but have taken a full-time position, so I have less fungible time in general, and I'm disinclined to spend it fighting institutional resistance at PerlMonks to a custom-coded search. Nevertheless, my current work assignment is to add several features to KinoSearch and get a release out the door, so in some sense I'll continue to contribute indirectly.

Google is already an accepted alternative around here, and it provides a significant improvement over both simple Search and SuperSearch. Naturally I would prefer to see a custom-coded search powered by an open-source full-text indexer like KS, Xapian, or Swish, but life is full of compromises, and one of the gods chatterboxed me a while back that he didn't want the maintenance burden and preferred Google. Changing the Search box so that it uses Google rather than the current engine would be a decent compromise.

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Marvin Humphrey

In reply to Re^5: New Feature For Simple Search by creamygoodness
in thread New Feature For Simple Search by jeffa

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