[Koha-devel] Calling All Developers : Manual Search

Nicole Engard nengard at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 14:04:57 CEST 2010


Reed,

I'll ask wizzyrea (Liz) if she can send you the code she uses, maybe
you can fix the code to generate different URLs (and if you do that I
have other pet peeves that we haven't been able to solve) :)

Thanks
Nicole

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Reed Wade <reed at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>>
>> Chris
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