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Poor wiki search?

Hi. This question is not for ROS, but for search engine of wiki. I was looking for "ros install for beagle board". So I typed in the search on ros website "beagle". But there was nothing useful results.

However, very suprisingly, when I typed in Google search engine it gives following result.

http://www.ros.org/wiki/BeagleBoard

What???? Why the ROS wiki search engine so bad? It is serious problem because there is no page that describes all the page of ros. So search engine is crucial. However, what a poor search engine!

Asked by Hyon Lim on 2012-07-14 10:17:55 UTC

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I've also noticed that the wiki search is pretty bad. I've found that unless you know exactly what you're looking for, google usually works better.

Asked by Dan Lazewatsky on 2012-07-14 11:14:45 UTC

Right... Why willow garage does not correct this?

Asked by Hyon Lim on 2012-07-17 00:08:49 UTC

This might be a question for @tfoote, or could warrant a ticket being filed.

Asked by Dan Lazewatsky on 2012-07-17 05:50:00 UTC

The wiki search is google site search. Not sure why it's was having so much trouble. It seems to be working better now.

Asked by tfoote on 2012-08-09 23:46:32 UTC

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