Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- Subject: Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- From: Chilton Webb <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:07:44 -0500
Hi Jerry,
On Apr 30, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
As you can see, the only useful information in that nine lines of
garbage is
"nsbuttoncelltableviews", which is the subject of the message written
in
studlycapswithoutthecaps.
Apple assumes that since their developers are far smarter than
developers for other, lesser, operating systems, that you need far less
information as a result of your search ;-)
It is rather difficult to tell from these results which messages I
should
read, and may be one reason why amateur programmers like me keep
bothering
you smart folks with the same stupid questions over and over.
Ironic, isn't it?
Am I using the "search archives" feature correctly?
WHO KNOWS. They're using the absolutely hideous ht:dig engine, or at
least that was the excuse I given the last time I complained about
this. Understand that I don't complain about Apple, or its development
program, etc., very often. But this is one serious pet peeve with me. I
wrote a search engine for a Mac developer site many years ago (which is
not around today), and I used Apple's V-Twin engine. IT ROCKED. But
that wouldn't run on OSX, as I never bothered to update it. I'm sure
Apple could come up with something better, if only to demonstrate the
sheer power of WebObjects and SearchKit. But alas, they're showing the
sheer power of a third party search engine was really kewl in the
mid-90s. Yes, I'm mocking ht:dig. Apple should have something better,
and far more elegant than that, on their site. Hell, they should have
something better than Google's search engine on their main site, if
only to show that it's possible with Search Kit. Or is this a sign that
we should we all abandon Search Kit and use whatever crap we can find
laying around online?
If so, why is it that the best computer company in the world, with the
most
advanced operating system, and the smartest people, and a large
developer-support department, do not provide something better than
this?
Should we have a bake sale so ADC can purchase something a little more
handy?
You left out a vital item--Apple owns one of THE BEST indexing search
engines in the universe, which is currently referred to as Search Kit.
I believe the answer to your question is that Apple doesn't have time
(or is willing to pay their own staff) to build a decent search engine.
I really don't get it.
And another question is equally relevant--Why is there no Sherlock
channel for searching any of the developer sites? Why is there no
Sherlock channel for at least searching the Sherlock channel developer
mailing list?
I'm going back to bed. I might be grumpy.
-Chilton
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.