[Python-Dev] Googlebot and the mail.python.org python-dev archive

[Guido van Rossum]

I think the better syntax would be to add site:mail.python.org to the
query, but you're right, that doesn't seem to find recent messages.
Maybe the absence of a robots.txt file on mail.python.org could be a
partial explanation?

(Disclaimer: I may work for Google, and Google's first crawler may
have been written in Python, but I haven't the foggiest idea about how
our crawler works these days.)

--Guido

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone else having trouble getting the python.org mail archive to
> turn up in Google searches for python-dev messages?
>
> I prefer to use that archive rather than one of the multitude of 3rd
> party archives when linking posts from PEPs and tracker issues, but for
> the last few weeks I've had to go find the messages directly on the
> archive pages rather than being able to grab them from a search.
>
> Example search (note that the top python.org hits are from 2006, but a
> 3rd party archive has the discussion I was after at the top of the list):
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Apython-dev+contextlib.nested&btnG=Search
>
> Searching the python.org archive specifically shows that the relevant
> recent messages aren't in the search index at all:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:pipermail+inurl:python-dev+contextlib.nested&hl=en&filter=0
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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