- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 05:32:19 +0200
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On 18.04.01 at 22:02, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote: >Terje Bless wrote: >> >>Ok, as of right now I'm officially declaring the list archives to suck > >I might have had a small influence in choosing altavista; for a while, I >was happy with the way altavista.digital.com worked. But I didn't set up >our local installation, and I've never been particularly happy with it. I >don't think anybody is. > >I think it's better than nothing, but I'm not sure; sometimes it sets >expectations that it doesn't meet... you end up wasting time thinking it's >gonna work. > >I wish we had something better, but unfortunately, wishing doesn't make it >so. It evidently takes a lot of work to set up a fulltext search service >capable of working for our web site. > >For public stuff, it's often best to use google.com with +host:w3.org or >whatever. Did anyone have a look at <URL:http://www.google.com/services/>? The public stuff can be set up in pretty much no time. As I'm not a Member I'm not too concerned about the pain and suffering they go through in the Private archives -- :-) -- but could you please put at the very least the Free variant of Google to work on <URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/> and -- since I'm a compassionate guy :-) -- maybe investigate using it for your internal lists too? BTW, someone might find this "Google W3C Lists" Bookmarklet usefull <URL:javascript:void(Qr=prompt('Keywords...',''));if(Qr)void(location.href='http://google.com/search?query=site:lists.w3.org+'+escape(Qr)+'&num=10')>. It just prompts for keywords, adds "site:lists.w3.org" to the query string, and sends it off too Google (i.e. pretty much just the standard Google bookmarklet).
Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2001 23:36:57 UTC