On Apr 1, 2011, at 08:49 , Tal Galili wrote: > Hello all, > I hope I'm writing to the correct place. > > I believe that the R homepage will benefit from including the "description" > meta tag in it's homepage. > The reason is that google uses that tag to decide what to show when the R > homepage shows up on a search result. > The current description of the first result of searching "R" in google is: > > "*R*, also called GNU S, is a strongly functional language and environment > to statistically explore data sets, make many graphical displays of data > from custom *..."* > * > * > This defention is truncated.
Interesting. What's odd is that although that phrasing is used in multiple places on the net, it is not in the actual www.r-project.org/index.html, nor in any other "official" places that I can spot. However, what gets displayed for SAS and Stata is not what is in their description tags? SAS: <meta content="SAS Business Analytics software -- 30+ years of experience and 50,000+ customer sites worldwide. View success stories, analyst reports & demos." name="description" /> Stata: <meta name="description" content="Data Analysis and Statistical Software for Professionals" /> What gives? > > > It seems that other statistical packages (and some known open source > projects) already noticed this. Here is what they write about themselves > (when searching for their name on google): > > - SAS: 50,000 Customer Sites Use SAS for CRM, BI, Analytics & More-Get > Info > - SPSS: Analytical Software at SPSS.com. Specializing in data mining, > customer relationship management, business intelligence and data analysis. > - JMP: JMP is statistical software for expert data analysis, DOE, and Six > Sigma, from SAS. For Mac, Windows, and Linux. > - Stata: Integrated statistical package for data analysis, data > management and graphics. > - Perl: The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other > helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers. > - Matematica: Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, the only fully > integrated technical computing software. > - It seems that Python, Ruby, and Matlab are not using any description > tag (and their google description is also truncated) > > > I hope this helps. > > Best, > Tal > > > ----------------Contact > Details:------------------------------------------------------- > Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | > www.r-statistics.com (English) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
