Hi, Someone suggested I (commons and en user:pfctdayelise) post this here. If I am mistaken and Google does in fact index the Commons, I would really appreciate someone explaining how to go about it. Comments welcome on either of my user talk pages, COM:VP or by email. cheers, Brianna (pfctdayelise) Originally at [[commons:COM:VP#Keywords]]: A related problem is that Google does not index the commons. Well, more or less. It is basically impossible to find any commons content in there - as you normally can by going ' keyword site:commons.wikimedia.org '. Personally I find this rather unbelievable and appalling on Google's behalf. Does anyone else think we should, um, make them aware of this? pfctdayelise 13:26, 16 January 2006 (UTC) This has been discussed before. Part of the problem is that descriptive info is in "foo.jpg", but Google has no way of knowing that we have text pages that just happen to be named identically to the nontextual image files that everybody in the world uses. Another problem is that Google ranks by references to the page, and most commons pages look like orphans or near-orphans, image references from WP articles being made "secretly" via the MediaWiki local/commons two-step lookup. On keywords, feel free to add them anywhere, they will help our own search algorithm. I'm not so inclined to be concerned about that, considering how many thousands of images still have not a single link or category. Stan Shebs 00:22, 17 January 2006 (UTC) Google does have a way to know that those pages are HTML, not binary files: it's in the http header field called "Content-Type". Google just ignores it (or does not even try to load such a page). [snip] Duesentrieb(?!) 02:01, 17 January 2006 (UTC) -- "Mathematicians do it with Nobel's wife."