Is it just me or is the <. in collatzv unnecessary?

(I'm referring to http://jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Collatz%20Conjecture)

Cheers,

Mike




On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since material related to J is mostly concentrated on jsoftware.com, I've
> sometimes found it more fruitful to use the J wiki's built-in search
> engine rather than Google.  For example, try typing "Collatz" into the
> search box at the top-right corner on any J wiki page, and hit "text" (not
> "titles", that's almost always way too restrictive, though in this
> particular case it would work ok).
>
> However, in this case, I actually typed [Collatz site:jsoftware.com] into
> Google (where the []s represent Google's search box, and shouldn't be
> taken literally as part of the search terms). That usually works well too
> (sometimes better than the Wiki's built-in search), but in this case it
> only worked because I knew what I was looking for, and I knew it actually
> existed on the site.  Because, when I tried it, while the Essay in
> question was actually the first result returned, what I actually saw was:
>
>  Source - Jsoftware
>  jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Collatz%20ConjectureJ
>  A description for this result is not available because of this site's
> robots.txt – learn more
>
> Where "Source - Jsoftware" would usually be the title of the linked page,
> and the only way I knew this result was actually the essay I sought was
> the URL below that, which included the words "Collatz Conjecture".
>
> Someone should probably look into this [1]: SERPs (and, by implication) SEO
> is the internet's analog to one's storefront.  Bloomingdales probably
> wouldn't be doing so well if they blacked out all their window displays
> and wrote "Macy's" on them.
>
> -Dan
>
> [1] Starting with http://www.jsoftware.com/robots.txt as Google's
> complaint
> suggests)
>
> ----- Original Message ---------------
>
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Memoizing (Project Euler problem 14)
>    From: mvillarino <[email protected]>
>    Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 18:30:58 +0200
>      To: [email protected]
>
> 2014-08-04 14:12 GMT+02:00 Dan Bron <[email protected]>:
> > If you're OK with spoilers, have you seen Roger's Collatz Conjecture
> essay
> > on the Wiki?
> >
> >      http://jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Collatz%20Conjecture
> >
>
> ? I googled for information on a J spoiler... but no, I haven't found it.
> Thanks a lot !!!
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