Article:		O'Reilly's E-Book Strategy
Subject:		Sounds like a search problem...
Date:		2003-11-24 17:30:53
From:		anonymous2
"I'm not surprised you didn't find them via the O'Reilly site search engine, since not all of them were on oreilly.com. The best way to find what I've written, and links to external essays or interviews, is to go to tim.oreilly.com, where links to my writings and interviews on various subjects have been collected." Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't the oreilly site search engine find and match references to anything listed in tim.oreilly.com? Even if the directory/file structure of the "tim" subdomain resides elsewhere, the whole point is that to the end user it's part of the oreilly.com site and including it in the search function of the main oreilly.com site makes sense.

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• Sounds like a search problem...
  2003-12-11 12:37:12  Mary Hubben | [Reply | View]
  
  
  The O'Reilly site search does index everything listed on tim.oreilly.com. All three of the URLs Tim provided are returned when you search on words related to those interviews. If anyone can give an example of a search that doesn't return an obvious match, I'll certainly look into it. The trick, of course, is making sure all pertinent keywords are included in the metadata, and I've no doubt we could always improve/expand the metadata associated with any given page.
  
  The other trick is making sure we list all of Tim's interviews, talks, and so on at tim.oreilly.com, and we'll try to be sure we do that. Again, please let us know if you spy anything we've missed.
  
  Mary