On 8/13/09 12:23 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
(I went on, on IRC, to point some examples of the behavioural change that happened towards the end of 2007 (per my cruddy memory) where non-widely-linked redirects basically fell out of the google index... search terms like "Jesus bug" or many other things like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirects_to_scientific_n... ... if we cared about the traffic flux from google we'd see what we could do to fix that)
Worth looking into; have we got some collected info and sample queries to poke at? [I would recommend moving further detail discussion on this end of things to wikitech-l.]
-- brion