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#149851 11/05/05 01:13 AM
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I don't know if y'all realize this, but there are oodles of google links to this board that are now broken due to the software switch; e.g., this link.

but note that the cache is still good.

which leads to a question: how long does Google maintain a cache version? I've also noticed some cache links, such as for online periodicals, take you to the latest pages rather than what the summary shows on the find.

BTW, the reason this particular link came up is due to this entry at l'hat.

#149852 11/05/05 01:19 AM
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yikes! the first link worked for me, and it's the old board. or maybe that's what you were saying and I mis-read it....

oy! but I did just notice some Google ads down towards the bottom of this page?... how long those been there?

interestingly, at least to me, there is still some interaction between the old board and the new. I was able to log into the old board, and try a search, which found that posts on the new board show up on the old board, but without user names. with a bit of digging and clicking you can echo around in those old, dusty halls... kind of a strange feeling, actually...

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#149853 11/05/05 01:29 AM
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broken links

Thought you were going to ask someone to fix your golf course...

#149854 11/05/05 01:33 AM
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>yikes! the first link worked for me, and it's the old board. or maybe that's what you were saying and I mis-read it....

I don't know, 'cuz I can't parse this either. what I meant was that on the Google page that I linked to, both links therein are broken for me (but the cache links are okay).

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#149855 11/05/05 01:38 AM
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heh. how do you know it's a cache link?

ah. never mind. found the cache link.

what I meant was that the true Google link worked for me. and got me to the old board, and the thread about razbliuto.

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#149856 11/05/05 01:43 AM
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>the true Google link worked for me

wdf, over?!

#149857 11/05/05 01:43 AM
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Quote:

broken links

Thought you were going to ask someone to fix your golf course...




silly boy -- that would be broken linx!

#149858 11/05/05 01:44 AM
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>wdf

the first Google link that shows up takes me to the old board. I don't have to use the cached link.

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#149859 11/05/05 01:45 AM
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Quote:

>wdf

the first Google link that shows up takes me to the old board. I don't have to use the cached link.




that I (finally) got; what I don't get is why we get different results..

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ah. glad we got that cleared up.

but I don't know. I'm using Safari on mac OS 10.4.3?


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#149861 11/05/05 01:49 AM
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how 'bout a show of hands..

does the header link on the google page cited [way] above work for you?
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Votes accepted starting: 11/05/05 02:48 AM
You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.
#149862 11/05/05 01:57 AM
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and here's a link to a pic of the old board during a search:

old board


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#149863 11/05/05 02:00 AM
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huh.. it works for me via IE or Netscape, but not Firefox.

(don't Netscape and Firefox have the same basic platform?)

anyways, I already voted "no", so that skews that.

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I'm using FF, and the top link didn't work, but the bottom one did. Call me Switzerland.

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> Google ads

seems the google ads only show on the thread pages.


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Worked for me with FireFox 1.0.7 in Mac OS X 10.1

Edit: The top one that is. Haven't tried the bottom one.

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both links worked for me in FF 1.5 beta 2 on mac OSX.4.3...

strange.


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They don't work for me, and although I can get them from the cache, I can't move from page to page.

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