I've noticed that searching Drupal.org is extremely slow. This makes sense since every time I search Drupal seems to cull through everything ever posted on Drupal.org. I think search would speed-up significantly if the default search only looked through content in the specific section that the user is in. On the hompage the search could be limited to posts updated in the past year unless the user specifies otherwise.

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dains’s picture

Yes PLEASE. I'm recommending a CMS for a project, and Drupal.org is the only one (so far) that won't let me just search through the modules so I can check off the list of requirements. I did Joomla and Typo3 in a couple of hours this morning and anticipated being done by the end of today, but without being able to search Drupal modules, I'm not sure how long this will take. If it takes too long, guess what? I'll have to move on to the next candidate.

Oh and I also tried to search the forums to see if anyone has posted this issue before. Umm, can't do that either. So yes, I think section specific searching would help a lot.

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mcsolas’s picture

Its sad, because so much is documented in here between all the pages, stories, issues, modules, forums....

I have reverted to using google site:drupal.org searches or manual page navigation to find anything useful.

The biggest drawback Im finding with drupal is that by default it combines all of the -unique-
content types and dumps "the mess" on /tracker and /search pages.