Re: TECH: Google search of listserv archives doesn't work anymore?

On 11/29/05, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@G...> wrote:
>
> >I used to be able to compile a list of permanent links to my postings
> >on CONLANG by doing an Google search on my name with
> >site:listserv.brown.edu.  Now that returns no results.  I tried
> >several variations in search terms; apparently Google no longer
> >indexes any pages from listserv.brown.edu.  Does anyone know why?
> I never thought to do a Google search for my name.  I tried it for
> caeruleancentaur and received "about 253" responses.  I saw all my old
> postings.  Is this what you were trying to do?
It looks like the results you got were at groups.yahoo.com,
which mirrors some of the brown.edu mailing lists including
CONLANG and AUXLANG.  I couldn't do a general
search for "Jim Henry" and hope to find my posts there
-- too many other guys named Jim Henry -- but this works,
sort of:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Jim+Henry%22+conlang+site%3Agroups.yahoo.com&btnG=Search

However it gives only 26 results, and some of them are
my posts in auxlang, volapuk, ceqli and other lists; so apparently
not all of the CONLANG posts are indexed at Yahoo,
either.  It's still better than nothing, though.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm
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