Thread: no mailing list hits in google
Hackers, [apologies if this is the incorrect list or is already discussed material] I've noticed that mailing list discussions in -hackers and other mailing lists appear to not be indexed by google -- at all. We are also not being tracked by any mailing list aggregators -- in contrast to a decade ago where we had nabble and other systems to collect and organize results (tbh, often better than we do) we are now at an extreme disadvantage; mailing list activity was formerly and absolutely fantastic research via google to find solutions to obscure technical problems in the database. Limited access to this information will directly lead to increased bug reports, lack of solution confidence, etc. My test case here is the query: pgsql-hackers ExecHashJoinNewBatch I was searching out a link to recent bug report for copy/paste into corporate email. In the old days this would fire right up but now returns no hits even though the discussion is available in the archives (which I had to find by looking up the specific day the thread was active). Just a heads up. merlin
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Merlin Moncure schrieb am 28.08.2019 um 18:22: > My test case here is the query: pgsql-hackers That search term is the first hit on DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pgsql-hackers+ExecHashJoinNewBatch&t=h_&ia=web Searching for "postgres ExecHashJoinNewBatch" returns that ot position 4 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=postgres+ExecHashJoinNewBatch&t=h_&ia=web
On 2019-Aug-28, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Merlin Moncure schrieb am 28.08.2019 um 18:22: > > My test case here is the query: pgsql-hackers > > That search term is the first hit on DuckDuckGo: > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pgsql-hackers+ExecHashJoinNewBatch&t=h_&ia=web Yes, but that's an old post, not the one from this year. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:31 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On 2019-Aug-28, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Merlin Moncure schrieb am 28.08.2019 um 18:22:
> > My test case here is the query: pgsql-hackers
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> That search term is the first hit on DuckDuckGo:
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pgsql-hackers+ExecHashJoinNewBatch&t=h_&ia=web
Yes, but that's an old post, not the one from this year.
It does show another interesting point though -- it *also* includes hits from third party list archiving sites, which are *also* gone from Google at this point. And those are definitely not gone from Google because we have a robots.txt blocking /list/ -- it must be something else.
//Magnus