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Michael George <george@××××××××××.com> posted |
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20061228015743.GA6475@××××××××××××.office, excerpted below, on Wed, 27 |
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Dec 2006 20:57:43 -0500: |
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> You are right, I didn't search the gentoo bugs, but I shall in the |
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> future. I didn't know that Google wouldn't grab them... |
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It's not something one would expect, certainly, given that Google knows |
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how to index and can often supply from cache as HTML everything from PDF |
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to MS Word and Excel files. However, each bugzilla installation, |
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certainly the big ones used by the various distributions and all the big |
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projects, tends to be somewhat customized, so Google would need to |
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customize it's bots for each one, and apparently the individual user |
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segments interested in each one are small enough Google hasn't found it |
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worth the trouble to do and maintain. |
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So it's an understandable mis-assumption. Still, think about it. How |
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many bugzilla results have you ever come across in your various Linux info |
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searches? I've certainly not come across that many, if any. It's just |
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that it doesn't occur to folks, since they are used to google indexing |
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virtually /everything/ on the web. I knew I always used bugzilla for that |
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type of searches, not google, but I didn't realize why, until someone |
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happened to explain it in a post such as this one. |
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So anyway, now you (and possibly others on the list) know. =8^) Google's |
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good for a lot of stuff, but not for looking up bugs filed in bugzilla. |
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Neat thing about newsgroups/mailing-lists that way. You ask a question, |
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or read one someone else has asked, and often get answers to questions you |
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didn't even know you had, in the process of getting the answer to the one. |
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=8^) That's one reason I find them so much fun, as I never know what new |
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and useful thing I'm going to learn when I load up the messages. =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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