On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Gregory Maxwell<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Cox, Serita<[email protected]> wrote: >> Google's new search engine, Caffeine, is supposedly kicking Wikipedia >> entries further down results page. Thoughts? Comments? >> http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39484015,00.htm > [from my comments in #wikimedia-tech the other day] > "So— I tried 20 random words, and the WP result was lower in four of > them, the same in the rest." > "No pattern really... We still have the problem with "article at funny name; > redirect from common name; common name search on google gives squat", > which I consider to be much more major."
A simple solution to this is using the canonical tags which all major search engines started supporting earlier this year. <http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/? Wikia's GPL code to add this to MediaWiki is available here: <https://wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/CanonicalHref/CanonicalHref.php? More info on it in Nick's blog post at <http://www.techyouruniverse.com/wikia/google-canonical-href-with-mediawiki> Angela _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
