A better search engine?

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How about this idea. Visit http://www.google.com/, select to ADD YOUR URL, input: boards.straightdope.com

Back to the main page, select, add FREE a http://www.google.com search box to your web site.

Presto! Major fast, accurate search engine for the straight dope board. One thing though, a search results page may have ads.

Anyone with a web site can use this idea. I did for my web site but I didn’t add the boards search because I didn’t think of it at the time & needed to test it first anyway.

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How often does the Google spider update the database? I can very easily see it going though and indexing all of the threads, and then ignoring straightdope.com for a few months, so you couldn’t use it to find new threads. With our traffic here what it is already, too, I’m not sure I’d want to invite a spider in to essentially open all fifty thousand threads at once.