MySQL Bugs: #38494: mysql.com search engine ignoring result

Bug #38494	mysql.com search engine ignoring result
Submitted:	31 Jul 2008 15:26	Modified:	11 Aug 2008 16:46
Reporter:	Vincent Courcelle	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:		OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Stefan Hinz	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	mysql.com, results, search

Description:
(sorry for posting in "bugs.mysql.com", this concerns the mysql.com website)

When doing a search on an interior page, the search engine do not display any result.

How to repeat:
Go to the page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/example-auto-increment.html (or any other), fill the left box "search manual" with "auto increment" and launch the search :

you get to http://search.mysql.com/search?site=refman-doc&q=auto+increment&lr=lang_en which says "Your search - auto increment - did not match any documents. "

press the "search" button on top and you get your results...

Suggested fix:
Redirect to http://search.mysql.com/search?q=auto+increment&site=refman-51&btnG=Search&entqr=0&output=...

instead of http://search.mysql.com/search?site=refman-doc&q=auto+increment&lr=lang_en

(site=refman-doc seems to be incorrect, refman-XX would be correct)

Thank you for a problem report. Indeed, search in the online manual stopped to work adequately recently, for whatever reason.

Use Google search as a temporary workaround.

I bet this is due to initial quirks with our new search appliance. I'll file a Web issue against this.

Assigning this bug to myself until the issue has been fixed.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed. The search facility for the MySQL Manuall works as expected now.

Please note that the search link provided in the bug report still doesn't work. This is because the link was wrong in the first place (the search facility has been fixed to create correct links now).