[Koha-devel] Calling All Developers : Manual Search

[Reed Wade]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
> On 9 August 2010 11:21, Reed Wade <reed at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't know that this is any better: http://koha-community.org/documentation/
>>>
>>> I searched for a system preference and got no results, the same
>>> problem I had with Bing.
>>
>>
>> http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=c19#AEN1605
>>
>> looks like a search engine unfriendly url
>>
>> the ?ch=c19#AEN1605  is probably not being followed so that content is
>> not likely to get indexed by google or bing
>>
> Yep,
> Thats why I think Zeno was on the right track, run our own one, which
> we can tell to follow urls like that, and can also rebuild the index
> when the manual is updated.
>
> But instead of swish-e I would suggest xapian.  I don't have time to
> set it up though, it will take someone else to actually do it.


That seems like the long away around (assuming there's a simple way to
get whatever generates these manual pages to do it in a different
way).

Crawling urls with query strings when the url has already been crawled
really is bad luck; it's definitely a defect in the manual generator.

(and I'm not totally stuck on using Google it's just easy and already exists)

-reed



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> Chris
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