Using Yahoo! or Google search bar instead of search.cgi

[Ceri Davies]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:24:48AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> The recent mail about not being able to find the status reports page
> points out how useless our search box is.  In this case a search for
> 'status reports' will have the correct link in the third position,
> which is actually better than most queries.  There should be loads of
> 'status reports' anchor text pointing to that page so more advanced
> search engines would rank it first.
> 
> Is there any reason not to ditch search.cgi and move to a Yahoo!
> search bar for the site?

I would prefer Google (though I fully understand that politically we
should go for Yahoo!).  I'd also prefer it if we looked at this as an
interim solution.  And a pony ;)

Ceri
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not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
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