I can’t find ANY words that return a search result on http://www.pce.govt.nz – so I’m not sure this indicates they have a specific grudge against the word “environment”.

I’m not going to argue for the infallibility of any govt dept, but I doubt they spent millions on setting up their search engine. Especially as it seems to have been there since sometime in 2001.

Sometime between then and now, it seems to have stopped working. Probably someone moved servers and didn’t know to set up the indexing job again, or some such.

ht://dig – http://www.htdig.org – is one of the older free + opensource search engines available. I thought it was pretty cool, back in the 90s anyway ;)

@dbuckley: those ego searches bite ya back sometimes, huh? :P wordpress doesn’t search the name of the poster, just the content of the post. pretty sure it doesn’t even search comments, in the stock config …

@strings: no, they didn’t reinvent the search engine, they just recycled a free one. which works fine if you configure it right, and stops working if you configure it wrong.

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Poor wikkle pwogwammers. They have to learn how to do what others have done somewhere, and where better than the public service where, at a contract rate of $100 per hour, newly graduated programmers get to make all the mistakes necessary to become profiviant at their chosen job!

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You can have even more fun with
100% Pure New Zealand
or
Clean Environment

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They could do it from free if the integrated Google’s site search.

But I’m sure they’ll spend $1m instead, as no one seems to give a sh@t how much money these turkeys waste on our behalf.

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I suppose this is what you get when you pay only 10 million for your web page instead of the going rate of 11 million.

My upgrade of my site cost 600 dollars.
Go to http://www.rmastudies.org.nz/
Search under environment and you will 3 pages of hits.
But then, I actually put spades in the ground.
Since moving north we are getting close to having put 100,000 trees and plants in the ground. I wonder how many plants PCEs get to dig in.

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Y’all should be using Google in:site search…

i.e. Type this query into Google…..

site:www.pce.govt.nz environment

The picture simply illustrates the waste and incompetence (once again) of the Public “Service”. How many millions did they spend on that one?

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Glass houses, frog: try searching for dbuckley on frogblog…

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