[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: ADMIN: Possible Change to the Main List Settings

[Shaun Hately]

On 12 Jan 2004 at 23:26, Dicentra spectabilis wrote:

> --- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...>
> wrote:
> 
> > I just tried a google search limited to the message archive of that 
> > group, searching for a word I know appears in the groups archives - 
> > my first name.
> > 
> > Absolutely nothing was returned by the google search.
> 
> And I just Googled "jakub s tomalak" and turned up exactly four hits:
> all of the posts that Mr. Tomalak has posted to your site.

Yes, that will work - but can the search be limited *specifically* 
to the site. That's the bit I can't see how it would work.

I've tried searches limiting to the domain 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dragwars/messages

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dragwars

Neither return anything - even when we *know* they are returned on 
a base google search like you did.

My question isn't so much whether google can search publically 
accessible archives - it's whether there is anyway to *limit* such 
searches to a particular publically accessible archive, which seems 
to be what the 'pro' point is implying.

There might be - I'm just concerned at the possibility that people 
are assuming there is, and haven't actually checked.


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