Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-03-03 Thread Christian Biesinger
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: That won't happen with individual bug pages. Are you sure? For example, the bugzilla front page has a link to Bugs Filed Today. Mozilla.org has links to mostfrequent bugs and I think also a list to bugs with most votes. -- there are not so little bugs which would be

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-27 Thread Andrea Monni
Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Because Google will index the full page, comments included. This is very useful. Because Google will be able to return Mozilla bug pages when you search for other things not only bugs, when it finds that the bug is relevant to the

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-27 Thread Andrea Monni
Chris Hoess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... More to the point, this is solving a problem that doesn't exist. It's already quite possible to do a full-text search on Bugzilla comments. The problem is that one tends to get either no results, or far too many.

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Gervase Markham
Well if there are only seconds and no objections I think it should be done. Somebody could just rm robotx.txt... This is not a good idea. Google's index of a bug would rapidly go out of date. You are solving the wrong problem. If Bugzilla's querying system makes it hard for you to find the

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Andrea Monni
Gervase Markham wrote: Well if there are only seconds and no objections I think it should be done. Somebody could just rm robotx.txt... This is not a good idea. Google's index of a bug would rapidly go out of date. Yes and no. You're right that it'd go out of date /rapidly/ but sooner

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Well if there are only seconds and no objections I think it should be done. Somebody could just rm robotx.txt... This is not a good idea. Google's index of a bug would rapidly go out of date. That's not a problem, because all Google needs to provide a search result is to have some

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread michael lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Well if there are only seconds and no objections I think it should be done. Somebody could just rm robotx.txt... This is not a good idea. Google's index of a bug would rapidly go out of date. That's not a problem, because all Google

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Gervase Markham
Yes and no. You're right that it'd go out of date /rapidly/ but sooner or later it'll be indexed becoming avaiable and, IMO, the utility of the Google (or your favorite search engine) indexing is more the ability to able to search quickly in all the Bugzilla database and, once you had

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Yes and no. You're right that it'd go out of date /rapidly/ but sooner or later it'll be indexed becoming avaiable and, IMO, the utility of the Google (or your favorite search engine) indexing is more the ability to able to search quickly in all the Bugzilla database and, once you had

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
that itself may be an issue. google will detect the frequent changes to bugzilla's dynamic pages, and revisit them often. having googling sucking down pretty much the entire contents of the bugzilla database at frequent intervals could well be a significant burden on the bugzilla

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread michael lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: having googling sucking down pretty much the entire contents of the bugzilla database at frequent intervals could well be a significant burden on the bugzilla server(s)... You are talking about how you think Google works. Google

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Chris Hoess
In article a5e5kr$6nlkc$[EMAIL PROTECTED], michael lefevre wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: having googling sucking down pretty much the entire contents of the bugzilla database at frequent intervals could well be a significant burden on the bugzilla

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
something? The point is if there is a valid reson for *blocking* Google. This hasn't been pointed out so I thought I'd mention it. Do we really want a search for Mozilla by someone who doesn't understand what bugzilla is to pull up results where a majority of them are bugs? And why would

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Travis Crump
The 'normal pages' ? Bugzilla is already in the top ten results of a search for 'mozilla'. What exactly are the pages that are going to be more relevant? Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: something? The point is if there is a valid reson for *blocking* Google. This hasn't been pointed out so I

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
something? The point is if there is a valid reson for *blocking* Google. This hasn't been pointed out so I thought I'd mention it. Do we really want a search for Mozilla by someone who doesn't understand what bugzilla is to pull up results where a majority of them are bugs? And why

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-23 Thread Andrea Monni
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: So I propose to change robots.txt to only disallow entries which causes searchs in bugzilla, and allow http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi at least. I second the proposal, very often I thougt that using Google for my queries on mozilla would have been

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
So I propose to change robots.txt to only disallow entries which causes searchs in bugzilla, and allow http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi at least. I second the proposal, very often I thougt that using Google for my queries on mozilla would have been easier than using the query

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Having the bug pages indexed by Google is of course a good thing: * Google could be used to search if a bug has already been reported, and it will probably make a better job than the current search system. * If someone searchs about a company Google will probably shown an evangelism bug

Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Currently bugzilla.mozilla.org disallow indexing by search engines. The robots.txt file has: User-agent: * Allow: /index.html Disallow: / Having the bug pages indexed by Google is of course a good thing: * Google could be used to search if a bug has already been reported, and it will

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-22 Thread Stuart Ballard
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: So I propose to change robots.txt to only disallow entries which causes searchs in bugzilla, and allow http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi at least. I'm not sure that would work: many (most?) search engines disallow searching anything with a ? in the URL. The

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
So I propose to change robots.txt to only disallow entries which causes searchs in bugzilla, and allow http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi at least. I'm not sure that would work: many (most?) search engines disallow searching anything with a ? in the URL. The only way to make this

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-22 Thread Sören Kuklau
Stuart Ballard wrote: Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: So I propose to change robots.txt to only disallow entries which causes searchs in bugzilla, and allow http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi at least. I'm not sure that would work: many (most?) search engines disallow searching anything