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 <ncogh...@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 | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
