[c-nsp] Cisco IOS

[Hank Nussbacher]

At 09:23 AM 09-12-05 +0000, christian.macnevin at uk.bnpparibas.com wrote:

I gave up on Cisco's search long ago.  Totally worthless.  Stop swearing 
and move one.  I use Google with

site:cisco.com my_search_string

and get more or less what I need.  I am sure others have better tricks to 
teach.

-Hank

>Sorry, but nooooooo way is CCO's search engine stuck in 1995. At least, in
>98, it rocked. You were able to search within
>heirarchical sections, search within results and you got some relatively
>meaningful answers, not screens and screens of
>release notes for things you don't give a rat's proverbial about.
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>There's a pretty big community of people I've met that believe they
>actually downgraded the functionality to make it easier
>to control access to the information through things like AS contracts and
>Gold partnerships and to push the Cisco Press sales.
>I swear at the search engine on a daily basis..
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> > Sometimes I think those web people actually hate the customers...
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>Have you spent much time on the web sites for other router vendors?
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>Getting to an software image is too much of a click-fest, everything slows
>down a bit after UK-lunchtime when the US gets out of bed, and the search
>engine is still resolutely stuck in 1995, but on balance CCO is a blazing
>beacon of utility compared to some I've tried to use.
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>Regards,
>Tim.
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