[SciPy-user] suggestion for improving http://www.scipy.org/

[Travis N. Vaught]

The web site search engine is currently broken--not sure when it
happened, but it's been down a few months.  I wasn't sure if anyone was
really using it--I'm sure no one is if it's broken.  Searching the
mailing lists works--but probably won't give you what you want.  I'll
look at fixing the catalog or whatever is causing the zope search to
return every doc.

Thanks

Travis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: scipy-user-admin at scipy.net [mailto:scipy-user-admin at scipy.net]
On
> Behalf Of Laura Creighton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: scipy-user at scipy.net
> Subject: [SciPy-user] suggestion for improving http://www.scipy.org/
> 
> Recently I wanted to find out 'Can scipy generate a random variable
> from a power law distribution'.  So I went to the site, and
> searched for 'power law random'.  Yow. 445 hits, none of which
> appear to have anything to do with generating random numbers,
> most of which are the empty home pages of people like me who have
> just joined the community.  Searching for 'power and law' did not
> help.
> 
> So -- 1. is the search engine broken, or do you all know something I
> don't?  2.  Any chance of implementing a specialised search for
> 'Can Scipy do this?'
> 
> Thanks very much for your time,
> and for scipy,
> Laura Creighton
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