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Re: Search engine?
- To: derek at biddersedge dot com
- Subject: Re: Search engine?
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 05:07:43 PST
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
>Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 16:52:33 -0500
>From: Derek Young <derek@biddersedge.com>
>To: ataylor@cs.ucsd.edu
>CC: "John F. Kolen" <jkolen@typhoon.coginst.uwf.edu>,
gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: Re: Search engine?
>
>Adam Taylor wrote:
>
>> Actually, I didn't. You're right, it doesn't come back with many
hits,
>> and none from the mailing list. But the mailing list archives _are_
>> searched. A better example would have been:
>>
>> +ncurses +host:www.cygnus.com
>>
>> which comes back with ~70 hits, many from the mailing list archives.
I
>> think 'curses' just doesn't occur in the mailing list archives as a
>> word. i.e. set of by whitespace. This is by using the engine at:
>>
>> http://www.altavista.digital.com/
>>
>> Adam
>
>Altavista and the other big search engines only revisit a site about
once a month or
>so. If they have any info from the mailing list archive at all, it's
bound to be
>fairly old.
>
>The best solution would be to install something like Excite For
Webservers
>(http://www.excite.com/navigate/) on www.cygnus.com. It's a free
product, and could
>reindex the whole site every day. I've played around with it a bit and
it seems
>fairly easy to use.
>
Free to use as long as you advertise. Also, no sources.
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