On Apr 5, 2005 7:33 PM, Ira Abramov lists-MediaWiki-l@ira.abramov.org wrote:
Quoting Brion Vibber, from the post of Sat, 02 Apr:
Christof Damian wrote:
does anyone know why google doesn't index description pages of images? if i do a google search like this: "site:wikipedia.org inurl:image" i just get about 650 result, some of which are media files, but none are images (jpg/gif/png).
Probably Google is stupid enough to think '.jpg' at the end of a URL means the resource is itself an image.
when you are a bot that has to slurp up millions of pages a day, it's safe to assume in 99.99% of the cases, that a jpg suffix will indeed lead you to an image. requesting that URL just to see that the header indeed gives one MIME type or the other means adding a considderable overhead. apart from mediawiki and a few rare CMS's, I'd risk a guess that practically nobody uses such suffixes in a URL..
Isn't that what the "HEAD" action is for? And shouldn't Googlebots be also indexing images for the Google image search?
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