[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] Remove website search, just use google

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 18:26 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Andrea's ChangeLog patches reminder me that I attempted something
> similarish once, and also tried to drop our custom website search:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-May/msg01616.html

Glad to be an inspiration for you! :)

> danpb recommended I just make our search bar use google instead but
> I never made the attempt. 3 years later here it is.
> 
> Patch #1 makes the switch but doesn't remove anything
> 
> Patch #2 drops index.py, the search indexer
> 
> Patch #3 drops search.php and all the references to it.
>     libvirt.org/search.php is still a valid URL so this may break some
>     links, even though at the moment the page prints virtually nothing
>     except some boilerplate text. Maybe we can redirect it to the
>     homepage or something, ideas welcome

I like the idea, and I like the diffstat even more O:-)

I would, however, suggest a slightly different implementation than
what you have here, where using the search bar would still send you
to https://libvirt.org/search.php?query=X, and that page would
contain three links:

  * "Search libvirt.org"
    https://google.com/search?q=site:libvirt.org+X

  * "Search the libvirt wiki"
    https://wiki.libvirt.org/index.php?search=X

  * "Search the libvir-list mailing list archives"
    https://google.com/search?q=site:redhat.com/archives/libvir-list+X

The advantages of this approach are that existing links pointing to
search.php will keep working, people will be able to search the
mailing list archives as well (this is a feature the current search
implementation is supposed to have) and search the wiki without
having to go through an extra hoop, and finally that extending the
search interface to include more sources would become as simple as
adding another generated link to the page.

What do you think?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization