Digital BW, The Print

On Friday 25 March 2005 10:51 am, Paul Roark wrote:
>  > But in my mind, the biggest shame is that all the valuable
>  > information shared in the forum is essentially lost because
>  > it's invisible to Google...
>  
>  ... I have an archive of my posts that I'd be more than willing to dump into a
>  Google-searchable database.\ufffd If other individuals voluntarily did likewise,
>  with their own writings (and only their own writings) we might have
>  something.
>  
>  If Google will not do it for free, would the group feel comfortable if a
>  commercial business financed it?\ufffd 

Google doesn't providew space for things like this; they just
do searching/indexing.  But all that's needed is for an archive
to be made accessible on the web (without the Yahoo login junk).
Then Google and other search engines will find and index it
automatically (assuming there's a link to the archive from some
previously-indexed web page).

This is far better than relying on the search engines built into
any web-based forum.  Those assume that a researcher knows enough
about the topic to find the web-based forum.  Google is better
because you don't have to know about the individual forums to
search.

I've been archiving the email traffic since the middle of February,
but I don't have web space to make it available yet.  It looks like
about 20M/month of traffic so far.