Re: forum with no search function?
- Posted by CChris Dec 24, 2008
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Out of fun, I had tried for "obnoxious" at www.openeuphoria.org .
The only returned result is a dead link:
http://www.openeuphoria.org/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?postedBy=cklester&toMonth=4&toYear=5&first_res=1
But here is the context displayed on the google result page, which appears to quote an actual post:
[snip]
I had tried "StatusBar" as well, and all of the 4 returned results were dead links too. They all involve esearch.exu.
That's interesting. I found that dead link after clicking the "repeat the search with the omitted results included." Since the old search isn't up, it's not surprising that it doesn't work, but I wonder why we get such different results.
In any case, it's fairly easy to only get 'good' results by specifying a more complete url. And a lot of them appear to be pretty old, so I guess that google was able to spider the forum. Try putting this into google's search field:
win32lib site:openeuphoria.org/Euforum
This gives me a bunch of results that all appear to be validI haven't tested them all...
Matt
Given the nature of the reported links, it seems that google spiders earlier search results cached in various places. And I don't think the same query will bring up the same results depending of where in the world it is made from.
What I had been doing is:
- get author/date/time info from google
- search Topica for such a message if it isn't too old.
Not exactly the most straightforward indeed. The bonus with Topica though is that you always get an individual message when search succeeds, so that the url can be passed around easily.
CChris
