Search function in macports.org defunct

[Nils Breunese]

Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> For a while, spammers hot linked to the trac search results with a full URL as search term. Trac has a feature where it adds a “quick link” to the bottom of the results when you do that, essentially generating a link to that page.
> 
> People were using that to abuse MacPorts Trac to link to their page so that Google (and I guess other search engines) would index their site as linked from MacPorts, presumably to increase their page rank.

Can’t this “quick link” Trac feature be disabled? And if not, that might be worth a feature request? It indeed sounds like an open invitation for abuse.

Nils.