... quickly search archives: gmail +GOOGLE

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Przemyslaw Plaskowicki
<przepla at g...> wrote:
> Hello,
> ...
> I obtained gmail account and uploaded all mails I received in my
> Thunderbird (mail client) using Gmail Loader program. Now I can use
> famous Google search to search through HPfGU archives.
> 
> Such solution has some problems though.
> I could upload only those mails which I already personally received.
> Gmail account is only limited to 1 GB, and I already used over 47%
of it ;-)
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Przemyslaw 'Pshemekan' Plaskowicki

bboyminn:

That's odd, I just added up the archives that I've downloaded, and in
un-ZIPped format, post 0->59,000 only add up to 140Mb. I'm confident
that the entire archive up to the current 68,000 will come in at under
200Mb. You must have tons of old emails stored there too.

Although, your suggestion of Google brings up an interesting thought.
It is possible to add Google search to your own personal website so
that when you instigate a search, Google just searchs that personal site.
 
I'm under the impression that this is a free service offered by
Google. I think the idea is that if Google is on the page and you want
to expand the search to the web in general, you are more likely to use
their search engine. Also, I suspect the results page has the same
advertising as any Google results page. 

Too bad, we don't have a webspace that would automatically post the
Digest format of this group. It wouldn't have to post the full text
file, just a list of links to the text files. That is, the main screen
wouldn't be hundreds of megabytes of text, but a list of the Digest
files. Then you could use Google to search, which will allow quite
complex search parameters to search out which Digest contained the
info you were looking for. I think the Digests are one weeks worth of
post, aren't they? 

Trouble is, for a webspace with that much storage and bandwidth, you
would probably have to pay, and that would be about $100/year, plus,
someone to maintain it. Although, it wouldn't have to be anything
fancy. Just a plain screen with a file list and a Google search box.

I think there are other services that have this feature too, 'Quick
Quote Quill' uses the ATOMZ search engine.

It's a thought; perhaps a project for some rich ambitious person.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)