Fix search (again)
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Authored by ceri on Jun 22 2021, 4:28 PM.

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allanjude
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R9:f595e3118ea1: search: Duckduckgo support for multiple sites has changed

Summary

duckduckgo does not support multiple site: entries in a search.

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Do a search trying any of the existing methods.
Do another one using site:freebsd.org.

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R9 FreeBSD doc repository

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ceri requested review of this revision.Jun 22 2021, 4:28 PM

ceri created this revision.

Reviewed by: allanjude

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 22 2021, 6:18 PM

ygy accepted this revision.Jun 22 2021, 8:04 PM

just to be clear, DDG still supports multiple sites.

This doens't work anymore:

site:docs.FreeBSD.org/mail,lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail

This works:

(site:www.FreeBSD.org OR site:docs.FreeBSD.org OR site:lists.FreeBSD.org OR site:wiki.FreeBSD.org OR site:forums.FreeBSD.org)

go to https://www.freebsd.org or https://www.freebsd.org/search/ (first form) and search for pgp, this is working there.

In D30867#694382, @dbaio wrote:
just to be clear, DDG still supports multiple sites.

This doens't work anymore:
site:docs.FreeBSD.org/mail,lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail
This works:
(site:www.FreeBSD.org OR site:docs.FreeBSD.org OR site:lists.FreeBSD.org OR site:wiki.FreeBSD.org OR site:forums.FreeBSD.org)
go to https://www.freebsd.org or https://www.freebsd.org/search/ (first form) and search for pgp, this is working there.

You can do a search that way, but the results are not as good. For instance, if you then change the date range to "past week", the multiple site version returns zero results while the single site version shows a commit made to net/keycloak. Additionally, clicking "All Results" on the multiple site version gives you a search for "pgp OR OR OR OR" rather than "pgp".

In D30867#694432, @ceri wrote:
In D30867#694382, @dbaio wrote:
just to be clear, DDG still supports multiple sites.

This doens't work anymore:
site:docs.FreeBSD.org/mail,lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail
This works:
(site:www.FreeBSD.org OR site:docs.FreeBSD.org OR site:lists.FreeBSD.org OR site:wiki.FreeBSD.org OR site:forums.FreeBSD.org)
go to https://www.freebsd.org or https://www.freebsd.org/search/ (first form) and search for pgp, this is working there.
You can do a search that way, but the results are not as good. For instance, if you then change the date range to "past week", the multiple site version returns zero results while the single site version shows a commit made to net/keycloak. Additionally, clicking "All Results" on the multiple site version gives you a search for "pgp OR OR OR OR" rather than "pgp".