Re: [Tools-discuss] Google Scholar not indexing Internet-Drafts

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:45 PM Marc Petit-Huguenin <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 7/29/21 9:41 AM, Warren Kumari wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:52 PM John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> >> It appears that Marc Petit-Huguenin <[e-mail]> said:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> We had this discussion already on ietf@ (
> >> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/I0BIw22bhd99buZz9lE-kFcrFGI/
> ),
> >> but the problem is
> >>> still there.
> >>>
> >>> Anything from arXiv is indexed, so I do not see why Internet-Drafts
> could
> >> not get the same treatment.  It in fact put IETFers at a disadvantage.
> >>
> >> They're not even indexing RFCs, other than some old ones where it finds
> >> copies that the ACM has.  Yow.
> >>
> >
> > Citation needed.
> >
> > Searching for bits from the abstract of a random selection of recently
> > published documents gives:
> >
> https://www.google.com/search?q=This+document+defines+a+BGP+path+attribute+known+as+the+%22Tunnel+Encapsulation+attribute%22
> >
> >
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+document+describes+a+new+Uniform+Resource+Name+%28URN%29+namespace%22
> >
> >
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+document+defines+a+process+experiment+under+RFC+3933%22
> >
> >
> > In an incognito window, the RFC Editor result was the first, second or
> > third result for all of these...
> >
>
> This is about Google Scholar.
>
>
Oh, yes, you are right -- I'd completely managed to swap out the context of
this thread...
<blush>
W



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