RE: local search support

Did you do the test I said with google? Go into google and search for this: sybase site:www.php.net you will get 136 results search now for: Sybase site:il.php.net You will get 4 results Same thing for gr.php.net of course. So if a user is searching for example Sybase installation on the php site (which is a real case scenario) the user will get 78 results. If the user tries on il.php.net he will get 0. You can try it directly in google by searching for: sybase installation site:www.php.net sybase installation site:il.php.net Spyros P.S. Yes I have read it somewhere that google doesn't index mirror sites 100% so that it would give more accurate results. If a user would search for Sybase installation without a limitation at a site he would get instead of 78 from www.php.net it would display at least 4000 results from the mirror sites plus any other non php.net sites (actually you get 137,000 results for the above query) -----Original Message----- From: shimi [mailto:shimi@shimi.net] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 12:40 PM To: Ioakim Spyros Cc: 'Wez Furlong'; php-mirrors@lists.php.net Subject: 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 > ¹¿%N·c > 0×ØMÉnews: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."