Re: search results broken - giving .atom page links

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Jeff S <jpsoren@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Search results seem broken - results are returning links to the atom > feed > >> of > >> a page rather than the HTML content. For example- > >> > >> http://us3.php.net/results.php?q=imagemagick&p=manual&l=en > >> The relevant results, #1, #2, #5 are all linked to the .atom feed of the > >> page instead of the page itself. > >> > > > > I experienced this also, when tried to search for Reflection. > > I think we should create some functional tests for the search, because we > > create new bugs or regressions with every change in the sorting > algorithm. > > :/ > > Search is a problem, but it's a difficult one. We do have: > > - http://wiki.php.net/ideas/phpnetsearch > > But regardless, we may need to add a temporary solution. Yahoo offers many > options but they feel complex, whereas a series of simple google custom > searches work well. A simple test, both generic and language specific, > appears to work fine. > > What do people think we should do? The main concerns are: > > - Language specific. E.g., if my language is en, I shouldn't see ja > results > - Offsite. Most of the work should be done by others (like Yahoo or > Google) and not us > - 404 handler information integration (currently not done) > - Do we need the sqlite based keyword stuff? An intelligent search may > remove this need > > Regards, > Philip I will check the current implementation, I think we should remove some complexity, if we can, and I think that the yahoo search integration can be tuned further, I don't know how did you integrate it, but in the past I've played with the google and yahoo search apis, and yahoo was better, and if I remember correctly, google discontinued their search API, so you can only use them with an AJAX search field, or if we redirect the visitors to the google (custom search). Tyrael