From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lawrence Mitchell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [gnu.org #194297] Re: Emacs-devel list IS slow Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:40:23 +0100 Organization: funfunfun Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87hdtwsocu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086108091 31513 80.91.224.253 (1 Jun 2004 16:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 01 18:41:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVCKF-0004Dw-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:41:19 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVCKE-0007SF-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:41:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVCKT-00053f-Ty for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVCK4-000530-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVCK2-00052O-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVCK1-00051p-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BVCJZ-0007W9-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVCJZ-0006Wc-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from vegetable.demon.co.uk ([80.177.16.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from wence by vegetable.demon.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:40:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 49 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: vegetable.demon.co.uk X-No-Yes: No Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AtR+Y9K/2wjJ7G4RJ+MOT98MnTU= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24352 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24352 Richard Stallman wrote: > Searching for "emacs" and not finding it is much better than if > you were searching for "emacs" and found vi instead. Unfortunately, > this is what Google does now. If you search for emacs by > http://www.google.com/search?q=best+emacs&cat=gwd%2FTop > then Google returns results with the first link pointing to Vi editor :-( This is not strictly true. Searching in the directory category gives, as results, links to Emacs-related pages. The first link on the page is a "Google Directory" link. Since Vi lives in the same category ("Editors"), as Emacs, Google suggests that its category may be of interest. To whit: | Directory Results 1 - 10 of about 368 for best emacs. (0.23 seconds) This is what we searched for. | Related categories: Computers > Software > Editors > Vi | Computers > Software > Internet > Clients > WWW > Browsers These are Google directory categories that Google's backend thinks may also be of interest. | Emacs: The Sacred Editor | Category: Computers > Open Source > Software > Editors > Emacs | Theological Issues concerning The One True Editor, with | particular reference to vi. As Saint IGNUcius... | www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/ - Cached - Similar pages This is the first link. > Is there any procedure for reporting such errors to Google? > (I have no idea.) If there is, could someone do it? If people think there is a flaw in the Google's /search/ results, one can report it via email to search-quality@google.com. If one wants to query the web directory (which in this case is the pertinant one, I think), one can email directory-feedback@google.com [...] -- Lawrence Mitchell