On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 10:49, Giskart wrote:
I have not really a problem whit the fact that google also finds the non-articles but I do that the talk pages sometimes haves a higher ranking then the articles. Those pages are competition whit the articels.
Then the article better be brought up to snuff so it gets a better ranking! ;)
I only bring it up because I had the impression that a couple of months ago was decided to exclude the non-articles from the search machines.
Not that I'm aware of. We exclude _edit pages_ since they're the equivalent of 404s; and we exclude some dynamically generated pages because spidering them puts extra load on the server as zillions of "show next XX items" links are followed.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)