Thanks for the thorough updates Erik :-) On 7 Dec 2014 23:11, "Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
I can confirm that my edit to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_Internat...
has now fixed the issue in Google search as it relates to that article,
but
the issue still remains on 8,600,000 articles (up from 8,540,000 articles yesterday).
site:wikipedia.org "Dear Wikipedia readers" produces 936,000 results for me. Please note that Google uses a distributed index, and depending where you are geographically, and where Google sends you based on server load, you will get inconsistent results from query to query. See this paper for a bit more detail on how these index inconsistencies manifest:
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/papers/bobble-pam14.pdf
Pages we know to have been re-crawled don't exhibit the issue, so it should be only a matter of time for the index to catch up. Please also note that the text being in the index does not automatically mean that it will show up in a typical search. Any search for the phrase itself will highlight it in the snippet (extract) shown in the search result page as a match, while a typical search will not include the phrase and will much less frequently identify the text to be a good match for the user's search query, mitigating global user impact significantly. We'd still like to resolve this completely as quickly as possible, of course.
Erik
Erik Möller VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
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