From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Search engine? 7 Nov 1997 05:27:33 -0800 Message-ID: <19971107130743.5776.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: derek AT biddersedge DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 16:52:33 -0500 >From: Derek Young >To: ataylor AT cs DOT ucsd DOT edu >CC: "John F. Kolen" , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT 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. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".