What's up with Google these days?

[Randy Pratt]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:39:08 +0100
Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid.homeunix.org> wrote:

> Randy Pratt wrote:
> > I went to use google to search FreeBSD mailing lists but they've
> > got something called "Google Groups" now and there's tons of
> > irrelevant noise returned as results.
> >
> > Anyone figure out how to use google now to just search the FreeBSD
> > archives?
> 
> I would just feed google with search string including
> "site:lists.freebsd.org" and "inurl:freebsd-current" (for example)
> 
> which could give you such results:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=altq+inurl%3Afreebsd-current+site%3Alists.freebsd.org
> 
> for more more info check google site:
> http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
> 
> hope that helps

Yep.  That's a good hint. Thanks.  I'll concoct somehting local to
make it a bit easier.

One drawback is that it is in pipermail format and not the old
style where you could read an entire thread using the scrollbar.
Now its necessary to klik, klik, klik to read a thread.

I've written Google to ask them to restore the old-style
FreeBSD mailing list search.  It was very efficient.

Best regards,

Randy


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