[seqfan] Re: Google's Indexing of OEIS

[Brendan McKay]

If you really want to use Google to search the OEIS site, add 
"site:oeis.org" to your search keywords.

Of course, that will eliminate references to sequences from outside 
oeis.org.

Brendan.


On 29/3/18 1:25 am, neil greubel wrote:
> Try "person's name oeis". As my example I searched "greubel oeis" and after
> the third page of listings I stopped looking.
>
> Some comments:
> 1) the listings may not be in order of "importance" or by ordered date
> 2) without "oeis" as a key word it is hit or miss in terms of Google
> selecting it based upon a name search.
> 3) other search algorithms are worse , ie Bing,  ask geeves, duck, etc
>
>
> Best regards,
> G.  C.  Greubel (Neil)
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 8:33 AM Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>    I have also noticed this oddity.    WFL
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/27/18, P. Michael Hutchins <pmh232 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Have others noticed lacunae in Google's indexing of OEIS?
>>>
>>> Being narcissistic, I looked for A294673.  I find it several times in
>>> references from other Sequences, but not its own Sequence page.
>> Similarly
>>> for my name.
>>>
>>> Obviously, that's not a big problem for my little vertex of the world,
>> but
>>> it seems importantly suboptimal for OEIS as a whole.  Are we doing
>>> something wrong?  like reusing A-numbers, maybe?
>>>
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