ht://dig is an exercise in pain. Please, please either: (1) allow Google to index the mailing lists again (2) add a search that isn't completely useless.
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Might I ask why Google was forbidden from indexing the mailing lists in the first place?
On 26/04/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
ht://dig is an exercise in pain. Please, please either: (1) allow Google to index the mailing lists again (2) add a search that isn't completely useless.
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On 4/26/07, Sanjay Sodhi sanjay.sodhi@gmail.com wrote:
Might I ask why Google was forbidden from indexing the mailing lists in the first place?
People complained about their names turning up in Google searches when they (gasp) posted to a public mailing list. Brion got tired of dealing with them, so he deindexed the archive.
On 27/04/07, River Tarnell river@attenuate.org wrote:
David Gerard:
ht://dig is an exercise in pain. Please, please either: (1) allow Google to index the mailing lists again (2) add a search that isn't completely useless.
could you describe what's lacking in htdig so we have an idea of what might be better?
Um, meaningful results at all, really. It's almost worse than useless.
- d.
On Friday 27 April 2007 08:32, David Gerard wrote:
On 27/04/07, River Tarnell river@attenuate.org wrote:
David Gerard:
ht://dig is an exercise in pain. Please, please either: (1) allow Google to index the mailing lists again (2) add a search that isn't completely useless.
could you describe what's lacking in htdig so we have an idea of what might be better?
Um, meaningful results at all, really. It's almost worse than useless.
Even if they were meaningful (I'm not sure it's worse than useless), it is useless for those *searching the web* looking for an answer to their question... One would have to search in google, then "oh, but there is also mediawiki ht://dig, I'll search that one also!", and then "and maybe in this other list...".
A local engine is useful for those who know beforehand that their answer is in these archives. For the rest of us, it's one extra search engine we have to remember and consult.
you're on gmail! use it to search your archived list
On 4/26/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
ht://dig is an exercise in pain. Please, please either: (1) allow Google to index the mailing lists again (2) add a search that isn't completely useless.
- d.
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On 27/04/07, Dave Caroline dave.thearchivist@gmail.com wrote:
you're on gmail! use it to search your archived list
This works only as of July last year, when I started reading the lists on gmail.
- d.
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