[Chicago] python searching

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Sun Apr 15 17:49:26 CEST 2007


You are sugesting I google for google?
Would I be googling google or google googling?

"Google Co-op is a platform that enables you to customize the web search 
experience for users of both Google and your own website."
  - http://www.google.com/coop/

How absolutely charming!

Carl K

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Of course if you had searched google you would have found it! (#4 for 
> google python search)
> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010104417661136834118%3Aat1-hsftvfo
> 
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>> I can't be the only one - I think this is a common problem.
>>
>> I want a one stop shopping version of searching for python stuff.  Like most 
>> users, I don't have any specifics, just some fuzzy annoyance in my life that I 
>> want someone else to fix.  well, I'll try to give some clues.
>>
>> It seems whatever python related thing I am searching for the process goes like 
>> this:
>>
>> http://www.python.org/doc/ "Python Documentation"  it has a "search box" but 
>> looking at the html I see: <..."sitesearch" value="www.python.org"...> so it is 
>> searching more than just the docs section.
>>
>> I click on "advanced search" http://www.python.org/search and get 3 more search 
>> boxes plus some links to other places to search.  None of them let me limit the 
>> search to docs.
>>
>> http://www.python.org/dev/searchplugin/  "This will install a Python Bugs search 
>> engine in Firefox/Mozilla's Search Bar."  That is the right concept, but I want 
>> to search docs.
>>
>> Of course there are language docs, standard library docs and a variety of other 
>> docs.
>>
>> What I would like to see:  a search that aggregates across all of the various 
>> python doc searches.
>>
>> Ok, I feel better now.  thanks for listening.
>>
>> Carl K
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