Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes: > [apologies if this is the incorrect list or is already discussed material]
It's not the right list; redirecting to pgsql-www.
> I've noticed that mailing list discussions in -hackers and other > mailing lists appear to not be indexed by google -- at all. We are > also not being tracked by any mailing list aggregators -- in contrast > to a decade ago where we had nabble and other systems to collect and > organize results (tbh, often better than we do) we are now at an > extreme disadvantage; mailing list activity was formerly and > absolutely fantastic research via google to find solutions to obscure > technical problems in the database. Limited access to this > information will directly lead to increased bug reports, lack of > solution confidence, etc.
> My test case here is the query: pgsql-hackers ExecHashJoinNewBatch > I was searching out a link to recent bug report for copy/paste into > corporate email. In the old days this would fire right up but now > returns no hits even though the discussion is available in the > archives (which I had to find by looking up the specific day the > thread was active). Just a heads up.
Hm. When I try googling that, the first thing I get is
and the "learn why" link says that "You are seeing this result because the page is blocked by a robots.txt file on your website."
So somebody has blocked the archives from being indexed. Seems like a bad idea.
It blocks /list/ which has the subjects only. The actual emails in /message-id/ are not blocked by robots.txt. I don't know why they stopped appearing in the searches... Nothing has been changed around that for many years from *our* side.