archive too slow - Use Google

Giovanni Voltaggio a440ps@sbcglobal.net
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:48:56 -0500


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Actually, if you wanted to search the PTG archive for cracked bridge  
using Google you enter this:

site:ptg.org/pipermail cracked bridge

It takes seconds.  Amazing.

Giovanni Voltaggio
Austin, Texas
                                                                         
                                                                         
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On Oct 13, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Giovanni Voltaggio wrote:

> That's terrific!  Fantatsic!  Works like a charm.  I figured there  
> was a way to use Google for this but couldn't figure out how.  I  
> find that I don't need the quotation marks.
>
> Giovanni Voltaggio
> Austin, Texas
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> On Oct 13, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Ben Henny wrote:
>
>> Ah, a subject I know something about....
>>
>> I don't use the archive search anymore. Use Google! To search the  
>> archive, enter:
>>
>> site:www.ptg.org
>>
>> in your search terms. For example, if you want to search for  
>> "cracked bridge" you enter:
>>
>> site:www.ptg.org "cracked bridge"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> I'm new to the list so I don't know if this topic has already been  
>> disc=
>> ussed: what kind of progress has been made with regards to getting  
>> the =
>> Pianotech archive search engine working faster?  When I first used  
>> it t=
>> he other day I put in my search word but I thought it was down  
>> because =
>> it took so long.  The archive goes back to 1994.  Try it:   
>> Pianotech Ar=
>> chive.
>>
>>
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