Before this poll: were you aware of the search page?
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A screenshot of the FreeBSD search page:
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If you do know where to find the page: please do not spoil the poll by sharing, or giving clues to, the address.
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@grahamperrin That's "can not find" as in "very hard to get to from the home page".
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If you do know where to find the page: please do not spoil the poll by sharing, or giving clues to, the address.
I am aware of it, but it generally gives worse results than adding site:FreeBSD.org to a search engine so I never use it.
I use the man-page search a lot, though I usually get there via !fMax in DDG.
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FreeBSD search: <https://www.freebsd.org/search/>
FreeBSD mailing list search engine: <https://lists.freebsd.org/search/> – thanks to @_bapt_
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I am aware of it, but it generally gives worse results than adding site:FreeBSD.org to a search engine so I never use it.
I use the man-page search a lot, though I usually get there via !fMax in DDG.
An example: neither <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22lists.freebsd.org%2Fsearch+and+www.freebsd.org%2Fsearch%2F%22&ia=web> nor <https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22lists.freebsd.org%2Fsearch+and+www.freebsd.org%2Fsearch%2F%22&tbs=li:1> finds <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2026-January/009804.html> (or <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?c448c1ab-7b6c-4dc4-bce7-e160270ca38a>).
So, for email list content, I use the FreeBSD mailing list search engine …