On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
I noticed that searching on Haskell.org (using the Search feature at the bottom) doesn't work as I expected. For example, searching for "memoise" produces no results.
This is searching haskellwiki.
Does anyone have the search logs for this page? If they were available, we might get a better idea of what people were searching for, and could then make the results more appropriate. For example, its entirely possible people are searching for functions (better prodivided by Hoogle search), wiki concepts (as currently searched for), haskell stuff (a google site search), or possibly something entirely different.
My experience from Hoogle suggests that people don't use your search like you think they do!
Typing haskell.org takes you to a page which has a search box at the bottom, so if the user doesn't look at the browser address bar (which does display http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell, indicating that you are inside the wiki), it is reasonable to suppose that the search box will search the whole site. I think it would be good to have multiple buttons, eg "Search haskell.org" (includes next two), "Search HaskellWiki", "Search mailing lists". Tamas