On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Theo10011 <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems to be a personalized search feature, not directly related to > Wikipedia visibility in search results. Two things: 1) before you actually come to this "feature", you'd have to go to the Wikipedia page, and then back to Google. It does not appear by default. 2) I can see how it could be harmful in that someone blocks a page they don't like on Wikipedia and end up blocking Wikipedia altogether. It then all depends on how easy it is to "unblock" Wikipedia. (this is true of Wikipedia, but also any other website, actually, just, as Bence pointed out, the potential for blocking is multiplied by the number of times Wikipedia appears as first choice in your search. One thing that might be worth telling Google would be to have some kind of warning when one searches from something else entirely, that would say "results are also present in one of the sites you blocked" or something like that, so that the hurdle of looking into your preferences is not barring people from even thinking about unblocking the websites they've blocked because of one page. Delphine -- @notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
