RE: ibm dot com search in System i pages

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Did you try Google/Advance and whatever your search criteria is and then
ibm.com as the Domain to search ?

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:32 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ibm dot com search in System i pages

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