Odd website behavior...

Started by Greg Copelandalmost 23 years ago5 messages
#1Greg Copeland
greg@CopelandConsulting.Net

When searching techdocs.postgresql.org, if you type in "transaction", it
says, "Your original search: transation returned zero results. The
alternate spelling: transaction returned the results below." For some
reason it is changing the spelling and then reverting back to the
original.

Just a heads up that something funky is going on. ;)

Regards,

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Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net>
Copeland Computer Consulting

#2Dave Page
dpage@vale-housing.co.uk
In reply to: Greg Copeland (#1)
Re: Odd website behavior...

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Copeland [mailto:greg@CopelandConsulting.Net]
Sent: 31 January 2003 16:12
To: PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List
Subject: [HACKERS] Odd website behavior...

When searching techdocs.postgresql.org, if you type in
"transaction", it says, "Your original search: transation
returned zero results. The alternate spelling: transaction
returned the results below." For some reason it is changing
the spelling and then reverting back to the original.

Just a heads up that something funky is going on. ;)

Works for me:
http://www.postgresql.org/search.cgi?q=transaction&amp;m=all&amp;wm=wrd&amp;ul=http%
3A%2F%2Ftechdocs.postgresql.org%2F&wf=222210

Or do you mean the old Google one?

Regards, Dave.

#3Greg Copeland
greg@CopelandConsulting.Net
In reply to: Dave Page (#2)
Re: Odd website behavior...

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 13:28, Dave Page wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Copeland [mailto:greg@CopelandConsulting.Net]
Sent: 31 January 2003 16:12
To: PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List
Subject: [HACKERS] Odd website behavior...

When searching techdocs.postgresql.org, if you type in
"transaction", it says, "Your original search: transation
returned zero results. The alternate spelling: transaction
returned the results below." For some reason it is changing
the spelling and then reverting back to the original.

Just a heads up that something funky is going on. ;)

Works for me:
http://www.postgresql.org/search.cgi?q=transaction&amp;m=all&amp;wm=wrd&amp;ul=http%
3A%2F%2Ftechdocs.postgresql.org%2F&wf=222210

Or do you mean the old Google one?

Regards, Dave.

I'm going to guess and say, "yes". Since the "old google one" is the
only search mechanism that I've seen. I'm surprised to read that there
is another mechanism. Clicking on "search" takes you to the only search
option that I've seen, which is the "search by google" one.

http://www.postgresql.org -> Techdocs -> http://techdocs.postgresql.org/
= google search. Clicking on the "Searchable Docs" takes you back to
the same page (google search).

Perhaps the "old google one" can be done away with as your results page
has a nice look and certainly was much more effective.

Regards,

--
Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net>
Copeland Computer Consulting

#4Dave Page
dpage@vale-housing.co.uk
In reply to: Greg Copeland (#3)
Re: Odd website behavior...

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Copeland [mailto:greg@copelandconsulting.net]
Sent: 31 January 2003 19:45
To: Dave Page
Cc: PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Odd website behavior...

Or do you mean the old Google one?

Regards, Dave.

I'm going to guess and say, "yes". Since the "old google
one" is the only search mechanism that I've seen. I'm
surprised to read that there is another mechanism.

Yes, it;s only a few days old - part of the ongoing website overhaul.

Perhaps the "old google one" can be done away with as
your results page has a nice look and certainly was much
more effective.

Justin? We can write a techdocs styled search/results page quite easily
if you like that will use the same database, and filter to techdocs only
if that's preferred. It would be nice to get rid of Google.

Regards, Dave.

#5Justin Clift
justin@postgresql.org
In reply to: Dave Page (#4)
Re: Odd website behavior...

Dave Page wrote:
<snip>

Justin? We can write a techdocs styled search/results page quite easily
if you like that will use the same database, and filter to techdocs only
if that's preferred. It would be nice to get rid of Google.

Agreed. It would be better to have Dave improved search engine do it.

Are you guys fine with ripping out the Google one and putting the new
one in? There is no chance I'm going to have time to do much in the way
of assisting at the moment.

:(

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Regards, Dave.

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