[gentoo-dev] Re: opinion on how to improve the website redesign

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Mike Frysinger posted <20051122150331.GD2628@toucan.gentoo.org>, excerpted
below,  on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:03:31 +0000:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:09:44AM -0600, Lance Albertson wrote:
>> 
>> They would need to coordinate with infra on how they would like to
>> implement a search function. For now, I think its best if they focus
>> their attention on the design and navigation and try to work on the
>> search box later.
> 
> why does infra need to be involved ?  cant we just have the form send
> users to google ?

Actually, that's useful in a couple ways.  Not only is it easy to do, but
I'd guess there's a fair chance Google could be talked into some sort of
sponsorship, in exchange for a 'Search by Google", which at the same time
will serve as the disclosure of who it's piped thru.  As someone (you?)
mentioned earlier, letting Google do all the hard work means it's both
easy implementation, and easy on our hardware since it's just passing thru
to Google.  If we can finagle a box or two (or mirroring, hardware and
bandwidth and benefitting from their connectivity!, directly located at
two or more Google locations worldwide) out of the deal as well, that's
even better!

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