Re: [boost] site search

From: Carl Daniel (cpdaniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-26 16:52:11

From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
> Hi,
>
> I have just added a Google search tool to the CVS version of the website
> index page. This is part of a crude attempt to get archive searching of
> our mailing lists, and intended to be refined before the next release.
> It's not working, in part because google doesn't index lists.boost.org.
> At first I thought it was because lists.boost.org was too new, but
> there's no indexing of lists.python.org either, which has been around
> forever.
>
> One possibility is that we could figure out how to mirror those pages at
> www.boost.org. I'm open to suggestions.

It seems to me that ultimately we'll want our own custom search engine for the Boost lists.  Even if we get google (for
example) to index the pages, they only refresh their index monthly, so searches for recent topics will be largely
ineffective through such services.

-cd