From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org>, overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: sourceware on search engines
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101111180921.GL26790@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sjz77n6k.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
Hi -
> Frank> They generally are indexed (not included in robots.txt). Can you give
> Frank> an example of what you see missing?
>
> I've seen this too.
> Almost any search that I would expect to hit on sourceware.org instead
> pulls up results from elsewhere, often cygwin.ru.
google has funny heuristics about which copy of a mirror to present for
any given query.
> E.g., search for "systemtap signedness roland" on Google.
> This shows cygwin.ru, nabble.com, but not sourceware.
> Now add "site:sourceware.org" -- I see no hits.
OTOH, sourceware.org/ml/* is indexed by google, and for other queries,
we get hits just fine. So whatever the problem is, it's not as simple
as it being blocked. It's more about freshness or crawling rate or
something.
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-11 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-10 7:16 Jonathan Larmour
2010-11-10 14:21 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-11-11 17:59 ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-11 18:06 ` Per Bothner
2010-11-11 18:09 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2010-11-11 19:50 ` Jonathan Larmour
2010-11-11 20:28 ` Christopher Faylor
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