From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Just use google for archive searching?
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znqyx56q.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021220024950.GA9178@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:49:50 -0500")
Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
> It seems like we might be able to just stop doing htdig and let google
> do our archiving for us.
I have thought of a technical reason why this is not a good idea.
When I do site searches, it's always the mailing lists I'm searching,
it's almost always for an exact string, and I want to see the results
sorted by date. Google doesn't provide a convenient way to limit the
search to just the mailing lists, nor to sort the results by date, and
I'm not sure what their rules are regarding characters that can appear
in strings. (The search I want boils down to recursive 'grep' --
regular expressions and all -- which htdig doesn't give me either, of
course.)
zw
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-22 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-19 21:41 Christopher Faylor
2002-12-19 21:52 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-19 23:46 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-20 2:27 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-20 11:50 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-20 12:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-12-20 14:15 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-20 21:33 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-12-21 9:31 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-21 16:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-12-21 16:34 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-21 20:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-12-21 5:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-12-21 21:29 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
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