[PLUG] PLUG Mailing List Indexed in Google

[Richard Owlett]

Google often useful
DO *NOT* TRUST IT! !!!!!
i have _*NEVER*_ found it's date search to mean anything

Google being "free"
you get what you pay for -- snicker ----> *LOL* ;<



Daniel Hedlund wrote:
> The PLUG mailing list is no longer being archived by Google.  It
> appears to have stopped collecting data since mid last year.  This was
> brought to my attention by Michael Rasmussen who mentioned off-list
> that he used Google to search the PLUG archives for "arch linux" but
> came up empty (I gave a presentation back in October on Arch so I knew
> something should've come up).
>
> Searching Google for +site:pdxlinux.org or +site:lists.pdxlinux.org
> and then restricting the results to 1 month returned nothing.
> Searching for 1 year returned 82 results.  Something's wrong...
>
> Remove date based filtering and search in reverse by month using the
> date in the archive's URLs:
> +site:pdxlinux.org "2012-January": 0 results
> +site:pdxlinux.org "2011-December": 0 results
> +site:pdxlinux.org "2011-November": 0 results
> +site:pdxlinux.org "2011-October": 2 results (1 plug-jobs and 1 on
> plug from someone I won't name)
> +site:pdxlinux.org "2011-September": 495 results
> +site:pdxlinux.org "2011-August": 392 results
> ...
>
> Checked the robots.txt on both pdxlinux.org and lists.pdxlinux.org, nothing.
>
> Nothing is in Google from October onward and date-based searching in
> Google appears to be broken.  Anyone have any idea what might be going
> on here?
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