Re: ibm dot com search in System i pages

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 pages


> Jim - 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
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