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Easy Livin 
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 Topic: Google search (was "That's illegal..")Posted: September 02 2006 at 04:18 |
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What entry for Urban Sax?
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Ghandi 2
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Joined: February 17 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1494 |
Posted: September 01 2006 at 23:30 |
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I hate the Google search. It's confusing for someone new, and it makes it much harder to find some bands, and impossible for some bands (I dare you to find the entry for Urban Sax via the search).
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crimson thing
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Joined: April 28 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 848 |
Posted: August 28 2006 at 05:04 |
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....so what have you asked Google recently?....
"They know all about you
Every time you use an internet search engine, your inquiry is stored in a huge database. Would you like such personal information to become public knowledge? Yet for thousands of AOL customers, that nightmare has just become a reality. Andrew Brown reports on an incident that has exposed how much we divulge to Google & co "
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/search/story/0,,1859785,00.html |
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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Joren
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Posted: August 27 2006 at 11:34 |
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o well...
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Easy Livin
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Posted: August 27 2006 at 11:29 |
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You can please some of the peolpe some of the time.....
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Angelo
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Posted: August 27 2006 at 10:51 |
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Depends on what you call annoying I guess. The google engine looks different and may be a bit slower, but at least it finds stuff.
As an example: In the old engine, I could search on e.g. Phil Collins and find nothing, now I find all kinds of references to him... Angelo |
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I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
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Joren
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 18:51 |
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I suppose it's just a choice... having a good website that attracts a lot of people or having a good website with a bloody annoying search engine that attracts a few more people. I know what I would choose...
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Easy Livin
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 17:27 |
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Probably, and M@x is keen to keep it that way.
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Joren
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 15:09 |
Isn't PA the top listed progressive rock website already? |
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mystic fred
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 15:02 |
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Easy Livin
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 14:56 |
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I think he's saying it's a case of you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. By using the Google tool here, this site gets better positioning in general google.com searches.
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Joren
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 14:31 |
Hmmm I didn't notice that. Still, what exactly is the advantage of this? I don't understand what Max is trying to say...
 "(...) to help me add the Google Search for www.progarchives.com ." ?? Edited by Joren - August 26 2006 at 14:35 |
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Easy Livin
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 14:06 |
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The Google search here is only searching this site of course Joren.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 08:12 |
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The problem is that to Google all web pages are the same - just a collection of words which are indexed. So it doesn't know whether a page is a forum thread, band page, album page etc..
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Trickster F.
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 08:08 |
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What I know is that it takes about four times more time to find the band you're looking for.
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Joren
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 07:49 |
What exactly do you mean? What does this mean in effect? Is the ProgArchives search tool coming back, next to the google search tool, or is it going to stay like this? Edited by Joren - August 26 2006 at 07:50 |
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Joren
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Posted: August 26 2006 at 07:48 |
But if I wanted a more complete research I'd surf to google myself! I don't want that; I want a progarchives search. I have never seen a website that only has a google search engine before...  |
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: August 25 2006 at 07:45 |
On the downside new or updated content is not visible for several weeks.   |
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progressive
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Posted: August 25 2006 at 07:13 |
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I was little surprised that it's now google. It's a bit better, but
also worse. I'm not complaining. But what can it do to bands who aren't
so popular? Good is that it allows you to dispell.
I liked the appearance of old "machine". But even better would be if gogle was here, in THE search: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search_form.asp?FID=0 BTW have you noticed there's now some ad, or pop-uo sh*t, which tries to get you "fix" your computer or something. I don't remember what it is exactly, but it makes me close the window. I don't like it. (Viruses?? help) Well, i don't need help but this site does. |
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Easy Livin
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Posted: August 24 2006 at 13:29 |
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I rather like the new facility. It offers a much more powerful search within the site than we had before.
For example, it will allow you to search for a band member, and see all the entries they are mentioned in. Also, individual tracks can now be found.
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