RE: local search support

Uhmm... Google indexes mirror sites IMHO. When looking for my site's address ("where is this site linked from") - google showed me EVERY and EVERY mirror site of the php.net out there (the mirrors.php page, of course, on every mirror, linked to my site, as it is a mirror house). Also I just ran some queries directly from www.php.net - they all referred to google search in my mirror, and results were given... Are you sure? On Fri, 23 May 2003, Spyros Ioakim wrote: > This has a huge drawback that google has to index your pages first. > And usually it takes 1 month for a new site before your pages get on > google. > Also google will tend not to index mirror sites. > Results on mirror sites will probably return fewer results than on > limiting the search of google on www.php.net. > > What I want to say is that if you do a search on google for: > Sybase site:gr.php.net > Sybase site:www.php.net > > You will get two different results (not a lot of answers on gr.php.net) > > Give it a try... > > Spyros > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wez Furlong [mailto:wez@php.net] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 12:13 PM > To: php-mirrors@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: local search support > > This is intentional; in many cases google will give equal or better > results > than the local search, and relying on google allows us to utilize all > the > mirrors in a load balancing arrangement. > > This move was necessary in order to combat excessive load on the > www.php.net > site itself. > > --Wez. > > "Ioakim Spyros" <sioakim@atlas.ace-hellas.gr> wrote in message > > news:CC9A3154C326EE4FAFF784F0A4785167580E59@acemain.ace-internal.gr... > Does local search support still works? > > > > On my mirror (gr2) it redirects it to google.... > > > > Spyros > -- Best regards, Shimi ---- "Outlook is a massive flaming horrid blatant security violation, which also happens to be a mail reader." "Sure UNIX is user friendly; it's just picky about who its friends are."