Google crawling of the site turned off?

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motet
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Post by motet » Tue Jun 24, 2025 3:17 pm

I used to be able to search for old postings here with Google by doing something like

site:www.finaleforum.com motet PDF

but now that comes up empty-handed. Has indexing of the site been turned off?
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Post by mknoll » Tue Jun 24, 2025 4:55 pm

I just searched

site:www.finaleforum.com motet PDF

using DuckDuckGo on the Mac and got a page full of relevant hits.
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Post by motet » Tue Jun 24, 2025 5:29 pm

Oh, thanks for trying! DuckDuckGo works for me as well. But a Google search results in

Your search did not match any documents
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Can someone try Google?
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Post by miker » Tue Jul 01, 2025 4:48 pm

I just tried it on the iPad. No hits with Google.

Duck Duck Go worked fine.
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Post by motet » Tue Jul 01, 2025 5:23 pm

Thanks for trying it. If you simply Google site:finaleforum.com, there are some very old postings, > 20 years old. Perhaps the administrator turned off Google crawling because of some sort of attach, mentioned elsewhere here recently? It would be a shame to lose that history.
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