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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Feb 28 01:12:01 CET 2009

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

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