Message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer on Sat, 21 Apr 2001, 13:51 <+0200>:
> Message from Anthony E . Greene on Fri, 20 Apr 2001, 22:07 <-0400>:
>
> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:13:42 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > >I didn't manage to use the redhat search engine for this list some minutes
> > >ago: I was looking for 'Pine' and then 'Netscape' at
> > >http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-list/index.html
> > >without a single result (perhaps someone will be more lucky than I was
> >
> > No matter what I search for I get tens of thousands of matches, and the
> > matches do not actually match. For instance, I searched for the string
> > "rdate" in the message subject and none of the first ten results contained
> > the string anywhere in the message. I then searched for my email address as
> > the Author and got thousands of matches. I only looked at the first ten, but
> > none were mine. I got the same thing when I searched for my last name.
> >
> > Red Hat's archives for this list are useless.
>
> Today I was more lucky ...I searched for pine and got more than 20 000
> results .. I tried then to connect the words to search for, i.e. to
> specify my search: I tried to search for 'pine AND pfeiffer' or 'pine
> +pfeiffer' or terms similar to these and never got a hit with both terms
> in it on the first hits, sometimes even no hits at all...
>
> I had more luck as to narrowing the search with google ...
... but even the results on google were nothing compared to the quality of
the search results at moongroup.com ....
Wolfgang
>
> Regards.
> Wolfgang
>
>
> >
> > Tony
> >
>
>
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