Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
On 11/18/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
I think it'd be useful for most multilingual MediaWiki installations that use interlanguage links to have such hidden <link> elements.
Speaking of which - this reminds me of an idea I had a while ago and I was wondering if anyone would be interested to hear this. Currently many Wikipedia pages in Google search results are redirects [snip]
I've never understood why people think this is a problem.
It's a problem at least at Google because it means the Google rankings of several articles are split across various URLs that "contain" the same article. If these rankings were funnelled to a single canonical URL, article ratings would be much higher, and Google search results would be more relevant.
If I search for a term in a search engine I think it increases the value of the search if I get a redirect under the title I searched for rather than a synonym for the term which I may or may not be familiar with.
But you *won't* get a search result under the title you searched for (at least not in Google). Google for "nonogram". The window title (and hence the Google search result) displays "Paint by numbers" because that is the title of the article. Except in the URL and in the article's first paragraph, you don't see the word "nonogram".
Timwi