Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: New package search

Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:54:33 +0000 > helgi@trance.is (Helgi Þormar) wrote: > > >>On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 13:18 +0200, Martin Jansen wrote: >> >> >>>>maybe for the docs and lists only? >>> >>>When playing around with this stuff, I noticed that the lists >>>are not indexed very well. Or am I missing something? >> >>AFAIK Marco T. and phparch for that matter are making some kind >>of PHP search engine that searches the lists and indexes them and >>such, so we should maybe wait and see how that turns out and use >>that if it's a viable option. > > > I like the idea of Y!, not specially because Rasmus is behind (help > though) but because it spares resources on our side (if I got the > idea correctly). I should be able to remove the query limit for us too. Google's API limit is only 1000/day which makes it a bit less useful than the 5000/day default for Yahoo's API. Honestly from an actual search result perspective, it is a tossup between the two these days, especially for a site search. -Rasmus