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Re: How much of LUGNET is indexed by Google?
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Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:22:06 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:48:03PM +0000, Thomas Main wrote:
> > How much of LUGNET is indexed by Google?
> 
> All of it, I'd hope.
> 
> > I have recently been trying to find out how and where my name shows up
> > on Google's search engine.  I was surprised to LUGNET posts I had made
> > showing up.  Are individual posts to LUGNET all indexed by Google?  Is
> > this the preferred behavior?  Can it be stopped?
> 
> I think it's a good thing - Google's a great way of findnig information,
> and there's a lot of useful information in various posts on LUGNET.  Why
> wouldn't we want it to be findable?
> 
> Dan

And let's face it the search function on lugnet ain't in the same league as
google's.

Tim



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  Re: How much of LUGNET is indexed by Google?
 
Actually, with the old server I think a lot of LUGNET's pages were set to "NOINDEX" due to server load concerns. When René and I took over, we opened up basically everything including images for indexing by search engines, in the first couple of (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-07, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: How much of LUGNET is indexed by Google?
 
(...) All of it, I'd hope. (...) I think it's a good thing - Google's a great way of findnig information, and there's a lot of useful information in various posts on LUGNET. Why wouldn't we want it to be findable? Dan (19 years ago, 13-Jun-07, to lugnet.admin.general)

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