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Need help with google search a site

  • 02-12-2016 5:39pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭


    I am trying to search www.rtb.ie

    For example: http://www.rtb.ie/dispute-resolution/dispute-resolution/adjudication-orders/2010

    down at the bottom shows:
    DR690/2009 Applicant Tenants- Ayodeji Algebeleye and Usman Akinade / Respondent Landlords- Peter Creamer and Adam Creamer clearly as text.

    I only picked this example as the text was unusual and a couple of years old so web bots would have found it.

    SO if I google: site:www.rtb.ie "Ayodeji Algebeleye"
    I tried Yahoo, Bing, Duckduckgo also

    I get 0 results
    I would have expected 2:
    1. being the link above
    2. the content of the linked pdf

    Does anybody know why or where am I going wrong?



    Is there a search engine better than google now

    PS this question has nothing to do with the RTB adjudication, purely I just want to learn about search engines.

    Thanks
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Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭maurice1


    Have I put this question in the wrong section of Boards?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,255 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    A search of that site for "tenant" only returned 420 results for me. Its possible that some parts of their site are restricted as regards being searchable, maybe with a robots.txt file or some other means.

    http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭golfcaptain


    For the example you gave, if you look at the robots.txt for that site (http://www.rtb.ie/robots.txt), you will see "Disallow: /dispute-resolution/disputes/adjudication-orders". Thus, any search engine that respects robots.txt files won't index (i.e. make searchable) the contents of http://www.rtb.ie/dispute-resolution/dispute-resolution/adjudication-orders/2010


  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭maurice1


    Thanks Guys for the info.
    I had never heard of robot txt before.
    I feel that google used to give better search results a couple of years ago.
    Is there a better search engine or one that ignores robot.txt?


  • Registered Users Posts: 760 ✭✭✭mach1982


    robot.txx are used by web crawlers, they tell what-what part of the website to be ignore Google is still best search engine


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