Date:         Tue, 6 May 2008 11:29:27 -0400
Reply-To:     pickle vanagon <greenvanagon@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         pickle vanagon <greenvanagon@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: CGI timeouts are driving me crazy
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I think this doesn't really work.  It misses messages.  For example, I
browsed and picked an arbitrary message, this one:
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0611b&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P=28169

This contains all of the terms
head gasket acura

But google doesn't find the message when I use these terms.  It doesn't even
find it when I search for overheating acura, even though these words are
both in the subject (And so found on some index pages of the archives).  In
my experience, this is how it is with most emails in the archive.

I think that for whatever reason, google doesn't fully index the archives.
Probably has something to do with the fact that it's a database with the cgi
script frontend, instead of a bunch of files.  In my experience, if you
search the archives using google and come up empty handed, there's a good
chance that there are actually emails that match your search that google
just isn't finding.

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:49 AM, pickle vanagon <greenvanagon@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think this doesn't really work.  It misses messages.  For example, I
> browsed and picked an arbitrary message, this one:
>
> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0611b&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P=28169
>
> This contains all of the terms
> head gasket acura
>
> But google doesn't find the message when I use these terms.  It doesn't
> even find it when I search for overheating acura, even though these words
> are both in the subject (And so found on some index pages of the archives).
> In my experience, this is how it is with most emails in the archive.
>
> I think that for whatever reason, google doesn't fully index the
> archives.  Probably has something to do with the fact that it's a database
> with the cgi script frontend, instead of a bunch of files.  In my
> experience, if you search the archives using google and come up empty
> handed, there's a good chance that there are actually emails that match your
> search that google just isn't finding.
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Roger VanTill <motelvw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Try this. It uses Google to search the aschives.
> >
> > http://www.google.ca/custom?sitesearch=gerry.vanagon.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/6/08, pickle vanagon <greenvanagon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I haven't been able to get an archive search through in weeks (well,
> > maybe
> > >  once or twice).  They always timeout after a few minutes.  I try and
> > try
> > >  again like a fool, but it's no use.  I know some people try to use
> > google
> > >  search, but this doesn't pick up everything (or even most things) as
> > I've
> > >  found that google doesn't completely index the archives.
> > >
> > >  How big are the archives?  10GB?  20GB? 30GB?  I wouldn't mind
> > keeping that
> > >  much on my hard drive so that I could run a proper indexed search on
> > them
> > >  when I needed to look something up.  Anybody know if it's possible to
> > get a
> > >  copy?
> > >
> > >  Thanks very much,
> > >  Wes
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Roger
> > '89 Westy "The Moose Lounge"
> > '86 GL Sugaree
> > '81 L CoJack (For Sale)
> >
>
>