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Improve the value of old forums with search hints

Summary

The forums provide valuable information that is basically lost/inaccessible because search is no longer available. I believe it was disabled because it was being abused...

But I did a bit of testing and one can still easy do a Google search like this:

site:https://www.eclipse.org/forums/  <search-term>

E.g., the following search turns up lots of appropriate matches:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.eclipse.org%2Fforums%2F++cross-document+references

Do you think we could enhance the yellow message:

https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/89/

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With instructions that suggest how to use Google to search the read-only contents?

Priority

  • Urgent
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  • Low

Severity

  • Blocker
  • Major
  • Normal
  • Low

Impact

The forums have 20+ years of Q&A that would continue to provide value if visitors know how to do a search.