I just wanted to
report something I just found with regards to searching on the website. When I
go to www.boost.org there is a search box in
the top right corner. Next to the search box there is a dropdown to select
between searching "Boost", "Documentation" or "Mailing Lists". Upon starting the
search, the user is redirected to a customized Google page with results. That
Google page also let's you choose between "Search WWW", "Search www.boost.org"
and "Search lists.boost.org". This is what I found:
case
a)
1. In
the boost.org main page selected "Boost" under search
dropdown.
2.
Searched for "thread priority".
3. Got
Google results page. Results did not include matches in boost mailing lists (as
expected).
4.
Selected "Search lists.boost.org" at the top of Google results page.
5.
Clicked search again (same string).
6. No
results were found.
case b)
1. In
the boost.org main page selected "Mailing Lists" under search
dropdown.
2.
Searched for "thread priority"
3) Got
results.
In summary: if you
start a search from the boost main page and then try to change the search
"scope" in the Google results page the scope does not change correctly. However,
if you go back to the boost main page and select the new "scope" there then the
search shows correct results.
This may not be at
all a boost problem (may be a Google bug) but I think it is confusing
(particularly for newbies). If changing the search scope does not work as
expected from the results page then I think it should not give you the option.
-delfin