Hello dear R-devel, I am allowing myself to bump this issue again (half a year later) - I think that the www.r-project.org website could benefit from having a description meta-tag. Could anyone please let me know who to contact regarding this?
With much respect, Tal On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Peter, > > Here is what google says: > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264 > > <http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264> >> >> We use *a number of different sources* for this information, including >> descriptive information in the META tag for each page. Where this >> information isn't available, we may use publicly available information from >> DMOZ. While accurate meta descriptions can improve clickthrough, they won't >> impact your ranking within search results. > > > > By the way, here is a short post ( > http://pineda-krch.com/2011/03/31/what-is-r-really/) suggesting that the > one-line description of R should be: > "R is a free and open source environment for computational research and > graphics." > I thought his claims might be of interest for this context. > > > With much respect, > 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) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:38 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 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 >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
