Announcing search.opensuse.org

malcolmlewis · March 21, 2011, 8:47pm

Hi All
Quite cool;
[opensuse-project] Announcing search.opensuse.org](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2011-03/msg00368.html)

Search - openSUSE.org

hcvv · March 21, 2011, 10:02pm

Could even be better then the forums search!

DenverD · March 21, 2011, 9:46pm

On 03/21/2011 09:06 PM, malcolmlewis wrote:
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> ‘Search - openSUSE.org’ (http://search.opensuse.org/)

thanks to whoever made it happen!!!
finally.

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j_xavier · March 21, 2011, 10:17pm

any tool that helps a person get desired information is a step in the right direction, well done.

i’d like it more if it didn’t require javascript, but i’m usually surfing anonymously

pistazienfresser · March 21, 2011, 10:18pm

Yes. Mostly better than the internal search.
And I have not to write all the time “site:forums.opensuse.org Keyword1 Keword2 …” like “” in the default Google search.
Maybe a link to openSUSE Forums Search with Google Custom Search | search.opensuse.org/forums/ could be added in the menu of the forums beneath the link to Advanced Search - openSUSE Forums | forums.opensuse.org/search.php ?

Only that I do not know if how to enter a search in a URL like I am able to do with the default Google Search like
site:forums.opensuse.org 14e4:432b - Google-Search

Regards
Martin
(pistazienfresser)

caf4926 · March 21, 2011, 10:21pm

Nice
Thanks

knurpht · March 21, 2011, 11:10pm

Did some testing, to me it looks much more powerful. Thanks to those who made this.

brunomcl · March 22, 2011, 12:28am

Nice. I used to be able to find reasonably popular packages with openSUSE package search linked in the download page standard search, but for a few months now I hardly get any hits.
Today I tried to find cups-pdf but no hits. I had to google to find the Printing repo. Not sure what had happened.

djh-novell · March 22, 2011, 11:41am

j xavier wrote:
> i’d like it more if it didn’t require javascript, but i’m usually
> surfing anonymously

Yep, an essentially blank page is not much use!

If websites ask me to enable javascript, I ask them for a financial
indemnity in case of any hack. Since they usually claim there is no
risk, there shouldn’t be a problem providing me with the indemnity

hcvv · March 22, 2011, 12:14pm

A very good idea!

pistazienfresser · March 22, 2011, 12:30pm

Compare/see further:
#310986 : Software Search to arrive at most desirable options|openFATE - openSUSE feature tracking](https://features.opensuse.org/310986)

And I think the problem may be that there is no fuzzy search or at least search for parts of a word (at least in the package name).

Regards
Martin
(pistazienfresser)

p_barill · March 22, 2011, 4:35pm

Wow! Nice!

I don’t like the slow forum search (with its cryptic picture that we have to decipher to proceed, just every time, making me feel like an unwelcome spammer). In fact, I relied more on google directly, but it was not so well targeted… Yeah specifying within google that you are searching within a particular website would do the trick… but I’m too lazy to put that line!