On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:01:23PM -0700, Elgoog wrote:
> At present, Google does not support special characters like !, @, or %. We
> are looking to add this functionality in the long run and appreciate your
> constructive criticism.
Hmm... 5 months later google still doesn't index URIs with '@' in them.
5 months qualifies as "long run" in Web years, no?
Come on, you probably just need to tweak a single regexp somewhere!
Pretty please? I have hundreds of thousands of pages on the web
with '@'s in their URIs, and many more to come.
Thanks :)
> Thanks for your support!
> The Google Team
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Oskoboiny [mailto:
[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:44 PM
> To:
[email protected]
> Subject: googlebot skips URIs with '@'?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Google is fantastic, way better than everything else out there.
>
> But...
>
> Why doesn't it index URIs that have '@'s in them? Sample:
>
>
http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/[email protected]
>
> I'm pretty sure those are valid URIs, per sec. 2.2 of RFC 2396.
>
> alltheweb.com doesn't have any problem with them:
>
>
http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?exec=FAST+Search&type=all&query=oskoboiny+fogo+mailing+list+archives
>
> and inktomi grabs them all, too.
>
> but google ignores them all:
>
>
http://www.google.com/search?q=oskoboiny+fogo+mailing+list+archives&hl=en&safe=off&filter=0
>
> thanks,
>
> --
> Gerald Oskoboiny <
[email protected]>
>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/
>
>
--
Gerald Oskoboiny <
[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/