Eloquence wrote: I agree. But it's also worth noting that there's probably no point in Google's indexing page histories, edit pages, what links here, user contributions, and the like. -- Toby

Brion Vibber wrote: I know and understand that. 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. 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. I am not afraid about that. I stand after my (broken) words. My IRL-name is on my user page. I find that a sysop should show his/her/it real name.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:03:06AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote: Brion, what is the mechanism for telling Google not to follow a link? Pragma: no-cache? In mod_wiki, it would be cool to make "googleable" be an attribute of the page one could turn on and off. Jonathan -- Geek House Productions, Ltd. Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 Phone: 604-435-1205 Email: djw(a)reactor-core.org Webpage: http://reactor-core.org Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 10:55, Jonathan Walther wrote: The cache obviously doesn't kill google, or our entire site would be missing from their index. ;) What we use seems to be: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> Supposedly it works, though I've made no attempt to test it. (Our robots.txt blocks off everything that directly uses the /w/wiki.phtml link, ie everything but simple page views and the default views of special pages.) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 10:34, Ray Saintonge wrote: It would be very easy, but I don't think it's desireable to do so. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)