On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Cox, SeritaSerita.Cox@bridgespan.org wrote:
Google's new search engine, Caffeine, is supposedly kicking Wikipedia entries further down results page. Thoughts? Comments? http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39484015,00.htm
[from my comments in #wikimedia-tech the other day] "So— I tried 20 random words, and the WP result was lower in four of them, the same in the rest." "No pattern really... We still have the problem with "article at funny name; redirect from common name; common name search on google gives squat", which I consider to be much more major."
A simple solution to this is using the canonical tags which all major search engines started supporting earlier this year.
<http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/? Wikia's GPL code to add this to MediaWiki is available here: <https://wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/CanonicalHref/CanonicalH... More info on it in Nick's blog post at http://www.techyouruniverse.com/wikia/google-canonical-href-with-mediawiki
Angela