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Forget infocenter searches...Google rules... Just add the site:publib.boulder.ibm.com to qualify your searches.... Thanks, Tommy Holden -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:34 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: ibm dot com search in System i pages Yeah, I forget the name of the person at IBM (Terry Barry?) who put together the support search site. He managed to pull together over 70 IBM information sources into that thing - it makes finding things in InfoCenter almost painless. I agree about how hard IBM makes things to find almost anything - who would think to look for videos and such under a "Resources" moniker? Not I, for sure. Somehow Microsoft has, generally speaking, done a lot better job, IMO. Much easier navigation. Oh, well! At 07:01 AM 8/24/2006, you wrote:
I agree the Support Search is different. The docs must have their own keywords or search phrases. My problem is with the general ibm.com site jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vernon Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:45 AM Subject: Re: ibm dot com search in System i pagesJim - I find the search at the iSeries support page to be far superior to anything else on IBM's sites - it shows that someone at IBM can do it right - give it a shot. At 09:31 PM 8/23/2006, you wrote:I have never been a fan of IBM's website search, often not finding what I know is there. I was looking for the page of IBM ads with customer's talking about how much they love the iSeries (System i) for a specific ad. I tried the customer's company name (a single word that would be fairly unique, no special characters - not found. I tried the Business Partner's name and the search result page had 9 links with a short paragraph under each link. But none of the paragraphs had much to do with the BP, and it made it appear this BP was responsible for what many other companies had done, and linked them to other customer stories they had nothing to do with. Someone's web crawler had lumped and scrambled much of this together into semi-sensible phrases that were very wrong. Did the view-source for the page and html was normal and not at all like search results. I tried several other search attempts and either got no search results (for names that are clearly on the page) or scrambled descriptions. It's kind of sad when one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world can't do "search". jim -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L)
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