[Commons-l] Commons search engine ranking, Was: Killing the main namespace?

Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 12:58:20 UTC 2007


Good idea. Who is going to bug the devs?

On 1/31/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/01/07, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Problem with search engines is that they are being too inteligent.
> > Posible solutions:
> > *Use <a type="text/html" href=".../Image:Foo.png">
> > **I wasn't expecting it, but the a element *supports* the type attribute.
> > **Validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
> > **Search engines probably don't support it, but we are providing the tags.
>
>
> Run it past someone suitable at Google, Yahoo and MSN, let Slashdot
> know so everyone else knows?
>
> The image search engines would undoubtedly want to index our image
> pages; if we can distinguish image pages ending in .jpg from actual
> JPEGs in a proper and conformant way, that should I expect be just
> what they would need to work with.
>
>
> - d.
>
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