[Python-Dev] Googlebot and the mail.python.org python-dev archive (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 01:03:43 CET 2009

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.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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