Some fancy pants screwed help.ubuntu.com search again.

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 15 August 2011 04:23, Marko Oreskovic <markoresko at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you name any other search product that is alternative and could be
> used in-house, then say so or be less ignorant to the topic.
>
>> By the way, there are many other ways of doing email that aren't owned
>> by "personal information-hungry companies". You should look into them
>> before being so critical of other people that happen to use Google
>> sometimes too.
>
> E-mail is not the topic of this topic/wuestion/RQE.
>
> Please re-read previous mail and try to figure out before answering to
> non-related things no one asked for, but explicitly stated they are not
> related..

Marko, please stop now.

I spent a fair amount of time today (that I should have been doing
more useful stuff) testing to see if any other search provider could
be plugged into our site. Bing quit their site search program and
replaced it with a complex API. As volunteers who aren't web
developers, that is not a workable option. I also tried DuckDuckGo
which has an embeddable search box but it doesn't work right with site
search. Google is by far the best option.

If you're a programmer, you're more than welcome to submit a working
alternative. Otherwise, I don't want to listen to your paranoid rants
saying that we should remove search from our site. The Ubuntu
documentation team is rather small and all-volunteer. Your emails are
preventing us from focusing on fixing real problems.

Jeremy