On 31/01/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/31/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Run it past someone suitable at Google, Yahoo and
MSN, let Slashdot
> know so everyone else knows?
> The image search engines would undoubtedly want to index our image
> pages; if we can distinguish image pages ending in .jpg from actual
> JPEGs in a proper and conformant way, that should I expect be just
> what they would need to work with.
Cute. I like, but it may be akin to moving the earth.
Oh, I dunno. "Hi, I'm Greg Maxwell, a developer on MediaWiki, the
software that runs Wikipedia. I want to add something to MediaWiki so
that our image pages get indexed by Google Images. I expect you'd like
that too. How's this idea ... [...] What works best for you, in a
standards compliant manner?" Worth a try!
- d.