On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:33 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:33 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I just searched for "googlesmithing" with nothing fancy. Popped >> right up. >> >> I am not trying to find googlesmithing on the web. I am trying to find >> it (and more generally, any search term) strictly within the archives >> of the fedora users list. > > I realize that, but my answer was in reply to a question as to why this > specific term didn't show up, when it had been used recently on this > list. IOW, the problem wasn't with Google not indexing the archive but > with the search function being used. As I recall, the 'googlesmithing' hits all came from other places on the web that also publish old posts from this list, none from redhat.com. So the question remains open. I can search the entire web and get plenty of noise. I can restrict the search to the 'official' archive, but something (probably indexing) may prevent relevant posts from becoming hits. Or I can restrict the search to a number of sites that archive the list, in hopes of overcoming the indexing problem, but then I will certainly get a large number of duplicate hits. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Wayne Feick <waf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dave, >> >> I mentioned MarkMail previously, > > > I added markmail to my search bar, but because it is not limited to > fedora users it is still not quite what I was hoping for. > > So I added a custom search page to google, now at > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010141371145140104529:cq3811jfple > (feel free to use it). > > Then I used the firefox add-on 'add to search bar' to add the search > from that page to my search bar. > > Now I am so happy. > > Dave Problem with this arrangement turns out to be, the results page generated by this custom search does not have a link to advanced search that would allow me to refine the search. Does anyone know the search term for restricting dates? The only way I know how to do it is to follow the advanced search link and use the menu. Can't figure out the resulting URL, either. Dave, not so happy after all -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
