[Foundation-l] Question to post...

Brion Vibber brion at wikimedia.org
Thu Aug 13 20:56:23 UTC 2009


On 8/13/09 12:23 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> (I went on, on IRC, to point some examples of the behavioural change
> that happened towards the end of 2007 (per my cruddy memory) where
> non-widely-linked redirects basically fell out of the google index...
> search terms like "Jesus bug" or many other things like
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirects_to_scientific_names
>   ... if we cared about the traffic flux from google we'd see what we
> could do to fix that)

Worth looking into; have we got some collected info and sample queries 
to poke at? [I would recommend moving further detail discussion on this 
end of things to wikitech-l.]

-- brion



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