Google Indexing

[Xollob]

Is there any system to the way answers are indexed in Google?
If, for example, I enter my username in Google and press 'Search Site', I see answers of mine going back about four weeks. Earlier threads, which I am sure I once accessed using Google, no longer appear.
I'm sure if you could somehow get the whole AB database indexed it would make an AB Site Search facility, which has been requested before, redundant.

[acw]

I have been told that to get higher up the google answer page, a web page needs to have more and more links to it.  The more links, the higher up the page.  I can't be sure this is true - but I hear that's how it works.  If that's the case - I'm not sure how google could be used as an alternative to AB Search. 

 

What COULD work though, would be a google engine WITHIN AB - for "search this site with google".  But that's probably rather expensive. 

[Xollob]

Hallo acw, it's not the Google ranking I'm bothered about, it's the fact that older entries do not show up at all. To know how Google could work as an alternative to AB Search:

If you have a Google toolbar installed, enter, for example, 'acw apostrophe' (without the quotes) and press 'Search Site'. Alternatively, if you don't have the toolbar installed, go through Advanced Search and enter 'www.theanswerbank.co.uk' in the Domain field to get these results.

Et voil�. But it only goes back a few weeks. All we need is for Google to index older postings and we have a very handy tool.

[acw]

Oh i see!  I don't like having toolbars - but thanks for the alternative tip!:-)

[Xollob]

Or type in 'site:www.theanswerbank.co.uk acw apostrophe' (without quotes) to get the same result - no need for Advanced Search.