[Rd] Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage (bump)

2011-11-20 Thread Tal Galili
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 4:2

Re: [Rd] Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage

2011-04-02 Thread Tal Galili
Hello Peter, Here is what google says: 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

Re: [Rd] Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage

2011-04-01 Thread Hadley Wickham
> 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 t

Re: [Rd] Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage

2011-04-01 Thread Roebuck,Paul L
On 4/1/11 1:38 PM, "peter dalgaard" wrote: > On Apr 1, 2011, at 08:49 , Tal Galili wrote: > >> 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

Re: [Rd] Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage

2011-04-01 Thread peter dalgaard
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

[Rd] Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage

2011-03-31 Thread Tal Galili
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