Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-20 Thread Bence Damokos
2011/3/20 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes is doesn't. Has anyone else seen

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org: Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search results. Sometimes this option

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just wikipedia.org or other/all sites. Bence pointed to this explanation:

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just wikipedia.org or other/all sites. Bence pointed to this explanation:

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Theo10011
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com 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