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Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Tue Feb 22 11:28:24 GMT 2005


On 22 Feb 2005, at 11:15, Kenn Humborg wrote:

>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:46:04AM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
>>> On 21 Feb 2005, at 23:31, Lee Hosty wrote:
>>>> To me a web-based archive is a bunch of links to archived web pages,
>>>> not a search box. If I wanted to search linux.ie, I'd go to google.
>>> And what google foo would you use to say "Please search only in news
>>> articles from linux.ie" ?
>>
>>     site:www.linux.ie inurl:news
>
> And that won't work, because Google can't crawl the news archive.
> Because there are no links to it.


But there is now a perfectly good search interface to archived news 
articles (albeit apparently difficult to use for some people :-)  ) so 
why would you want to use google, if your objective were to search ILUG 
news?



Niall




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