On 1/11/2010 2:50 PM, tanix wrote:
In article<mailman.757.1263177422.28905.python-l...@python.org>, Terry
Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
This site pops up spam windowns. One was blocked, one managed to bypass
the popup blocker. Tnis is not friendly behaviour.
I am sorry. But this is a known issue.
This is one of counter vendors doing these popups.
They were contacted about this but they refuse to deal with it.
These popups are totally inappropriate.
These counters will be removed with the next major site update.
Good.
Some categories have 100s of entries. Better, I think, to use a search
engine such as Google with more specific search terms and a snippet of
context for each result.
Well, I can not tell you what is better for you.
You have to decide on your own.
What I can tell you is this: when you do Google search, you are not
going to get the most appropriate results. Because their filtering
is orders of magnitude less precise.
What you have told me is that you are woefully ignorant of how good
Google results are. For example, search 'pyparsing'. First 3 hits are
http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/
http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/examples
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyparsing/
etc.
Just what one would want to get info about and possibly download
PyParsing. Compare that to a linear scan of 100s of titles under your
general category 'parsing'.
There is currenly work going on to do internal site search that
will further increase precision.
A site search bar would improve its usefulness a lot.
Terry Jan Reedy
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