[RFC] Test drive: Ubuntu Documentation Search

[Jordan Mantha]

Is this similar to http://search.ubuntuwire.com/ ?

-Jordan

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently created a Google Custom Search Engine [1] that specializes in
> finding Ubuntu Documentation:
>
>        * http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/search.html<http://people.ubuntu.com/%7Ekirkland/search.html>
>
> It searches the entire web for your input query, but gives special
> priority to the ~15 or so Ubuntu-related websites that I've defined.
>
> If your query returns hits, you can then refine your search to only
> include results from Manuals, Official Docs, Wiki Docs, Answers, Forums,
> Lists, Bugs, or Code.
>
> There's even a browser plug-in to add to your Search Engine bar in
> Firefox.
>
> You can find more detailed information about the design in the wiki [2].
>
> The source code is available in Launchpad [3].
>
> I hope this is useful to Ubuntu users and developers alike.  I'm
> interested in any comments or feedback you might have.
>
>
> [1] http://www.google.com/coop/cse
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationSearch
> [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-documentation-search
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> :-Dustin
>
> Dustin Kirkland
> Ubuntu Server Team
> Canonical, LTD
> kirkland at canonical.com
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>
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