helene_t Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 I suggest the Bridge Base Forums be indexed by search engines such as Google. It is a question of amending forums.bridgebase.com/robots.txt. PS: It might be a good idea not to index the Water Cooler, as most of what it contains isn't really stuff bridgebase want to be associated with, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant590 Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 But what will Csaba do with his free time then? P.s. It's a great suggestion. Should certainly do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 i have 1 useful skill and you want to render it obsolete. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 I prefer to stay with Google 2.0 (g-w-nn, n. a modern search engine with attitude). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdanno Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 I would rather keep google out of here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted April 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 What is the reason for not indexing? Is it a concern that the forum would be invaded by non-bboers? I suppose that would be a risk. Anyway, it is frustrating that it is so difficult to find old threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotShot Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 What is the reason for not indexing? Maybe some posters should not use the internet for fun during work. A posts in a thread like "how to kill time at work" could get them in trouble.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 i have 1 useful skill and you want to render it obsolete. :angry: You can become the guy that fixes bugs in the search engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 What is the reason for not indexing? Maybe some posters should not use the internet for fun during work. A posts in a thread like "how to kill time at work" could get them in trouble.... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Anyway, it is frustrating that it is so difficult to find old threads. Can't you use the forum's search page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 I like this suggestion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloa513 Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Sorry wrong forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted April 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Anyway, it is frustrating that it is so difficult to find old threads. Can't you use the forum's search page? Yes but it is very poor. It seems to have problems with words containing non-alphanumeric characters. It ignores words with less than four letters. It can't find synonyms, alternative verb forms etc. And above all, it has no way of accessing relevance (OK, relevance is tricky on a forum because internal links are not so widely used, maybe Google would not be great either. But surely better than the search page) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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