On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa
<kwadhwa(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
2011/3/19 Erik Moeller
<erik(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Looks like it's one of their small percentage
experiments. Haven't
been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just
wikipedia.org or other/all sites.
Bence pointed to this explanation:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.…
Thx. I know about the general blocking
option but wanted to know if
anyone has seen other sites, besides Wikipedia, specifically called out
too.
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I first thought it might have had something to do with google's new
search algorithm.
I thought a similar feature had been around for a while, to block results
from a particular site. There was a star option earlier to prioritize
results from a particular site, it seems to be a natural progression.
It seems to be a personalized search feature, not directly related to
Wikipedia visibility in search results.
Theo