Google search result on squeak-dev

Frits Swinkels frits.swinkels at shaw.ca
Wed Nov 5 14:33:44 UTC 2003


I often use  the following incantation on Google:

searchwords site:lists.squeakfoundation.org  where searchwords are the 
terms of interest.

Yesterday I got some totally useless results back: mostly the search term 
did not occur in the search result at all.
In fact, a supposed search result and its cached (by Google) value do no 
longer agree!

Is this perhaps related to the regenerating of the mailing list archives 
mentioned in another thread?

At 12:27 AM 11/4/03, you wrote:
>I'm experimenting a bit with the mailing list archive, most notably
>adding ads, but I will also try to polish the look and feel a bit. This
>means that during the next few days (at most), it will happen from time
>to time to that I will have to regenerate the whole archive - this
>usually means that during a couple of hours, articles and/or index pages
>are not available. I'm doing 'development' on a low-traffic list of my
>own, so I doubt that this will happen more than once or twice.
>
>The reason I'm doing this is because I'm soo bored and I like flashy
>pages.
>
>Ok, seriously - it's an attempt to use the traffic on the list archives
>(haven't got the faintest idea how big it is, but we'll find out) on
>banner exchanges etcetera in order to support ad campaigns for my new
>company, tric (http://www.tric.nl/). It's an experiment, if it fails (or
>works extremely well ;-)) I'll think up some other use for the space. At
>the moment, I'm only doing this on the squeak-dev list archive, but it's
>quite possible that (if protests aren't too loud ;-)) I'll modify the
>other lists as well.
>
>To sweeten the pill, and in order to experiment a bit with what can be
>done around the list archives, anyone with a Squeak-related banner
>should feel free to contact me - commercial and non-commercial projects
>are equally welcome; for the time being, only the 468x60 banner is
>available for this (the reason being that the Google 'skyscraper' is a
>text ad and I'm not sure yet how text and image ads mix in phpAdsNew,
>the system I'll use to mix the regular banners with the Squeak banners).
>
>So if you want to place a banner, send a 468x80 gif, max 12kb, not
>transparent, animated if you like, to me with the URL that belongs to
>it. I will refuse adult, gambling, ... material. For starters, I'll
>reserve up to 35% of the top banner space for these free (yes, free,
>gratis, 'as in beer') banners, in a week or so when I know more about
>statistics etcetera I may adjust that amount up or down a bit.
>
>(oh, and I'll also check what all these 'no subject' broken messages are
>doing in the archive while I'm at it - probably the master archive mbox
>file needs some scrubbing)
>
>Regards,
>
>Cees
>--
>Cees de Groot               http://www.tric.nl     <cg at tric.nl>
>tric, the new way           helpdesk/ticketing software, VoIP/CTI,
>                             web applications, custom development




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