Re: Blogs for questions, blogs for answers

["Samuel Wright" <lykoszine -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 22/03/07, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >From that list, I reviewed the website of several that appeared
> promising. One of the most promising, although proprietary, would
> appear to cost $32:
> http://www.woltlab.de/products/burning_board/index_en.php
>
> At first blush, Burning Board appears to have *every* element we might
> desire: flexible email notification for those who desire it, powerful
> archive searching (based on a MySQL database), export of new messages

David,

Almost all (!) forums have a mysql search of one kind or another. This
does not make it any good. The search algorithms are usually pretty
simple, often involve cutting out words of 3 characters or less, and
are often just full text searches of the forum post.

One could always use _any_ forum, and get a google site search to
index the pages. Almost certainly better for finding what you want,
but not so nicely integrated into the site proper.

S
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