Re: [GBlist] archive size

[Ethan Goldman <ethan@buildinggreen.com>]

Using google's advanced search tips, I devised this string to add to 
any google search that will limit the results to the list archives:

site:solstice.crest.org inurl:greenbuilding inurl:discussion

(ie. solar hot water site:solstice.crest.org inurl:greenbuilding 
inurl:discussion)

But it appears that there is only one page from the new archives 
(they moved recently) in google's index. If you exclude the last part 
of that string - inurl:discussion - you will get many more results 
(up to 12,300), but they will all be from pages with 
/sustainable/greenbuilding-list-archive/ in the address. These are 
the old pages (all of which have been moved to the new archive) so 
the links will all return 404 errors. To read the results, use 
Google's 'cashed' link (little grey text on the bottom line of each 
hit, after the address) to see the page as it was when Google indexed 
it.

I have submitted the new address to google, so the new pages should 
be available soon (several weeks?)

Anyone else have better luck with another technique?

Ethan

At 7:45 AM -0800 1/31/02, David Bergman wrote:
>Speireag Alden wrote:
>>Sgrìobh Corwyn:
>>
>>>I just use altavista, or google to search.  Sometimes restricting 
>>>the search to the archives, sometimes not.
>
>Dumb question: how do you do this? Is it from a regular Google search page?


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