The search function completely sucks. If I'm looking for a comment that I *KNOW* was posted in an story, but can't remember the story, good freaking luck finding it.
I usually wind up with better results by using google ("search text" +site:slashdot.org).
It was first link already when I posted it. And back then, it said "4 hours ago", so it was indexed no later than 15 minutes after GGP posted it. Yes, Google does love Slashdot.
this is true with many websites; I would not make this a high priority for slashdot. Why do you assume that some/. programmer is going to beat google at its own game? I guess they could simply put one of those "search this site with google" boxes, but you already know how to do that so....
Do you suffer painful hallucination?
-- Don Juan, cited by Carlos Casteneda
SEARCH!!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
The search function completely sucks. If I'm looking for a comment that I *KNOW* was posted in an story, but can't remember the story, good freaking luck finding it.
I usually wind up with better results by using google ("search text" +site:slashdot.org).
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Fix other things on Slashdot. They're more important.
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site:slashdot.org search function completely sucks [google.com]
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It was first link already when I posted it. And back then, it said "4 hours ago", so it was indexed no later than 15 minutes after GGP posted it. Yes, Google does love Slashdot.
I've done it too (Score:2)
>Google does love Slashdot
And why shouldn't they? Amidst the thicket of our strife often a stem of truth is found.
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THIS. It was my one big one for the survey too.
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this is true with many websites; I would not make this a high priority for slashdot. Why do you assume that some /. programmer is going to beat google at its own game? I guess they could simply put one of those "search this site with google" boxes, but you already know how to do that so....