* Herb Martin wrote (22/05/06 13:31): >> From: Miguel Saturnino >> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 12:13 +0100, Chris Lear wrote: >> > I know I can grep the text documentation, and I can also search on >> > exim.org directly, but I can't help thinking the world would be a >> > better >> > place if exim.org was better indexed by Google. >> >> I think the problem is manly due to having the mailing list >> archives in >> the same domain as the documentation. A search for "site:www.exim.org >> exim transport_filter" returns 10,700 results! The problem is that the >> first result pages are not the documentation but mailing list >> messages. >> Moving the mailing list archives to another domain, like >> lists.exim.org, could improve the situation... > > Add an "inurl:" qualifier using "spec_html" as the value: > > exim transport_filter site:www.exim.org inurl:spec_html > > 3 hits (or 5 depending on how you or Google count); > #1 is (likely) the answer for this specific example. > > Note: This method may suffer as the version numbers > (4.61, 4.62) proliferate due. And due to the '.' > character we cannot use the full version spec > (i.e., exim-html-4.62 doesn't work) so we will eventually > need to cheat a bit: > > exim transport_filter site:exim.org inurl:spec_html inurl:62 > > With the "62" we get exactly THE answer, i.e., 2 hits, > one in the index and the actual page, but I expect this > was a bit lucky. > > BTW, this particular search works without the site: > specifier but is not guaranteed to do that in general, > or if there were mirrors it would give duplicates page > references. > > If you try using JUST the "62" version qualifier without > the "spec_html" you actually get the PDF specification > file in addition so if wish to short it, this works: > > exim transport_filter site:exim.org inurl:62 > > ...give 3 hits. > > And since pretty much every page at exim.org has > "exim" we can remove the leading term (i.e., "exim") > in most cases: > > transport_filter site:exim.org inurl:62 > > Ok, I got carried away but this helps me clarify > some things for myself as well. <grin> > > Hope it helps others at both Exim.org and elsewhere.
In FireFox, you can even create a bookmark with a smart keyword, using this URL: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%s+inurl%3A62+inurl%3Aspec_html+site%3Awww.exim.org I've made it use "exim" as a keyword, so I just tried entering 'exim control relaying' in my address bar, and it came up with the answer to Bruno Nunes' question about relaying (hardly surprisingly, since I fed it the words on the card, but at least it works). I still think we would be better served if searches for exim info didn't suffer from so much interference that we need this sort of thing. Chris -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
