[Pydotorg-redesign] how to search the site

[Simon Willison]

Roy Smith wrote:
> What does Lupy give us that google doesn't?

Lupy gives us three big advantages:

1. Content is indexed as soon as it is added to the site. This is a 
critical advantage over Google, which may only reindex once a week or 
even once a month.

2. We can customise it (as Tim Parkin has already pointed out).

3. It's written in Python! The official site for the Python programming 
language should showcase Python whenever possible. Obviously it is not 
worth trading off end user functionality for "powered by Python", but 
Lupy really does look like an excellent search engine. Additionally, the 
author of the package is likely to be happy to provide extra support and 
customisation for the implementation used on the Python.org site.

Best regards,

Simon