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Index of Subjects Let's not invest ANY time in submitting/re-submitting listings to search engines until we get CCN cleaned up... we run the risk of making things worse... david potter On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Norman L. DeForest wrote: > > It might also be worth using some of the special features of the search > engines to look for sites with specific links. To look for links to > "ccn.cs.dal.ca/~af380" (as a totally random example) that are NOT on CCN, > the syntax for AltaVista in the Advanced Search page would be > > link:ccn.cs.dal.ca/~af380 AND NOT url:ccn.cs.dal.ca > > A search on > > link:ccn.cs.dal.ca/Culture/HarperLee/ AND NOT url:ccn.cs.dal.ca > > http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&text=yes&kl=XX&r=&act=search&q=link%3Accn.cs.dal.ca%2FCulture%2FHarperLee%2F+AND+NOT%0a+url%3Accn.cs.dal.ca&d0=&d1= > > finds this page: > > "Chris Bohjalian - Burlington Vermont - Date: 11/02/98" > http://burlingtonvt.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa110298.htm > > Link [29] on the page uses the "ccn.cs.dal.ca" domain to link to the > Harper Lee page. You might want to drop the webmaster a line. > > > A search for sites that use explicit "cfn" or "ccn" URLs finds almost > fifteen hundred of them listed on AltaVista alone and any visitor that > uses those links and then follows relative URLs on the ccn/cfn pages and > bookmarks anything will also be using the old domains in their bookmarks. > > http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&text=yes&kl=XX&r=&act=search&q=link%3Acfn.cs.dal.ca+AND%0a+NOT+url%3Acfn.cs.dal.ca&d0=&d1= > > Enter boolean expression: > > link:cfn.cs.dal.ca AND NOT url:cfn.cs.dal.ca______ > > AltaVista found about 6639 Web pages for you. > > http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&text=yes&kl=XX&r=&act=search&q=link%3Accn.cs.dal.ca+AND++NOT+url%3Accn.cs.dal.ca&d0=&d1= > > Enter boolean expression: > > link:ccn.cs.dal.ca AND NOT url:ccn.cs.dal.ca______ > > AltaVista found about 8077 Web pages for you. > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Christopher Majka wrote: > > > Hi Jane! > > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, David L. Potter wrote: > > > > > Probably by someone linking to your site and using cfn/ccn in the link. > > > We're going to actively 'encourage' the search engines to re-index using the > > > proper address... we're not going to turn off the old address until we're > > > satisfied that we're not going to cause a significant loss of access. > > > > > > david potter > > > > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jane Kansas wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Although I have never used 'cfn' I see that my IP site is listed in > > > > some search engine results with 'cfn'... how did that conversion take > > > > place? Will those listings be dead ends? Thanks for your time. > > > > One thing you can (and I would) do is to do some searches on several > > search engines looking for Harper Lee: > > > > I just did the following with Alta Vista, Look Smart, Netscape, Excite, > > Infoseek & Lycos and found the following: > > > > *www.chebucto.ns.ca* > > > > Lycos > > > > Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird <DL Harper Lee Biography (Yes, Miss Lee > > is still alive.) Contains information about > > http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture/HarperLee/ > > > > *www.ccn.cs.dal.ca* > > > > Alta Vista > > > > Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird > > Biography of Miss Lee and information on her novel. Links to other > > Mockingbird sites. List of further readings. > > URL: http://www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/Culture/HarperLee/ > > Last modified 16-Sep-98 - page size 4K - in English [ Translate ] > > > > LookSmart > > > > Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird > > Biography of Miss Lee and information on her novel. Links to other > > Mockingbird sites. List of further readings. Size 4K - 16-Sep-98 > > http://www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/Culture/HarperLee > > > > *www.cfn.cs.dal.ca* > > > > Netscape > > > > 71% Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird > > URL: http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/cfn/Culture/HarperLee/ > > Summary: Biography of Miss Lee and information on her novel. Links to > > other Mockingbird sites. List of further readings. > > > > Excite > > > > 71% Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird - Biography of Miss Lee and > > information on her novel. Links to other Mockingbird sites. List of > > further readings. http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/cfn/Culture/HarperLee/ > > > > *no listing* > > > > Infoseek > > > > Ergo, you should submit your URL and get listed! ;-> > > > > This indicates that most search engines (with the exception of Lycos) have > > your pages listed via either old URL. Most of these (and other) search > > engines have a mechanism whereby you can submit ammendments or corrections > > to listings so I would go there and get them to update their indicies. > > > > Ciao! > > > > Chris > > > > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > > Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> > > Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada > > URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html > > > > "We have ... in this country ... far too many captive editors who cannot > > even be heard to rattle their chains." -- Carl E. Lindstrom > > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > > > > > > Norman De Forest http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Profile.html > af380@chebucto.ns.ca [=||=] (A Speech Friendly Site) > ......................................................................... > "I'd offer to change your mind for you, but I don't have a fresh diaper." > -- Leah to pro-spammer in news.admin.net-abuse.email > ......................................................................... > Spammers, see: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Profile.html#Contact > Spammees, see: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Antispam.html >
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