Sun bugs are not indexed by search engines: good/bad?

David Herron david at davidherron.com
Sun Jan 16 17:29:42 PST 2011


Does this depend on which search engine you use?

With Google if you prepend "site:bugs.sun.com" and search for that title it
comes right up.  This indicates that bugs.sun.com IS indexed by Google.

- David Herron
http://davidherron.com


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:33 PM, assembling signals <
assembling.signals at yandex.ru> wrote:

> Hello, community!
>
> I noticed several times, that most bugs in the sun database seem not to be
> indexed by search engines.
> I am asking myself (and you), is that behavior intended?
>
> Let's have an example:
> This is one of the bugs, submitted by me (
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7007535 ).
> When you search for that bug's title using search engines
>    ("Please *** *** *** Method", with double quotes!) you will NOT find it.
> I "masked" the title by intention, so that THIS mail won't be found
> accidentally when you try out the mentioned search.
>
> Should this behavior be intended, my question is: why?
> Should this behavior be unintended, my question is: can and will it be
> "fixed"?
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan G Shevchenko
>


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