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just point people to Google

Posted Nov 5, 2002 16:26 UTC (Tue) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
Parent article: LWN gets a search engine

Note that I've been using Google to search lwn.net for a while now.
Just append "site:lwn.net" to a search on the front pagen and bingo,
instant search of the lwn.net site.

I don't know if lwn.net can leverage this directly, but I've seen
other people do stuff like this (they have a "Google" search "box"
on their front page that basically does this). I expect that costs
money?

Pete Flugstad

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just point people to Google

Posted Nov 5, 2002 21:19 UTC (Tue) by and (subscriber, #2883) [Link]

additionally google searches usually give better results and are faster. maybe a "search @ google" button would be a good idea :-)

just point people to Google

Posted Nov 7, 2002 13:42 UTC (Thu) by Psychopath (guest, #4501) [Link]

I think it only costs money if you want the results page be customized. (To have the look&feel of the searched page)

Though I wonder whether google would be willing to donate this :) I guess it would not be a heavy burden for them and as far as I know they're using Linux heavily... just an idea for a donations in kind ;-)