Re: [WikiEN-l] Google hit rankings

-- Asbestos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Asbestos On 5/12/05, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote: > > Nathan Wong wrote: > > > Why does Wikipedia seem to be so low recently? It seems to be barely > > featured for lots of common searches, whereas various snapshots and > > Wikipedia mirrors are indexed frequently. For example: > > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=prime+minister+of+the++united+kingdom&f... > > > > > http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Australia+capital&fsrc=1&oi=moreso... > > (those are question answers, but thats what many people may look for). > > > > With Wikipedia being such a popular site, I'd have thought that it > > might be higher. > > I imagine the Google spider doesn't wait around five minutes > hoping for the page to come up. Many times it just has to cache > the empty page from wikipedia.org http://wikipedia.org, can't be good > for our > page rank vs quick-responding mirrors. > > Stan > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >