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So I ask Mr. Google about performances of same. He turns out to be quite good about past performances and fairly good about future performances. But future performances is a bit patchy, with the only near relevant one being at a church called Cratfield, of which I had not previously heard but is near Southwold and appears to host a well established music festival.

Next stop the Wigmore Hall web site and I put 'D956' into their search box, which brings up a batch of performances, mostly in the past but one being on 10 December next. Just the ticket. From which we deduce that the part of the Wigmore Hall system where they store information about performances is not visible to Mr. Google. Is it open to web hosts to block the google crawlers? And if so, why would they want to do that? Or is it that the google crawlers can't crawl around databases? Which might be because you can't see the big files which constitute databases from the outside or because even if you could it would not be possible to build a sensible hit out of some string which turned up deep inside one.

The result of which is that lower order venues like Cratfield which store their programme as a single web page which google can and does crawl over are google visible, whereas higher order venues like Wigmore Hall with their sophisticated web sites are google invisible.

Would it be worth the Wigmore Hall publishing a google searchable version of their programme? I would not have thought that producing a report of this sort from their database would be a huge chore - and once it was done it would be done. Should I send in a suggestion to this effect in the hope of scoring free tickets for evermore?

All's well in geekworld!