[WikiEN-l] Donation message interferes with Google summary

Axel Boldt axelboldt at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 31 20:14:29 UTC 2003


It might be advisable to move the donation message somewhere else, since 
  it is included in the Google summaries, leaving only very little room 
for lines from the article that are relevant to the search term.

The Google result for "Otto Rank" for instance looks like this:

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Otto Rank - Wikipedia
Otto Rank. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Find out how you can help
support Wikipedia's phenomenal growth. ... External link. Otto Rank.com. ...
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Not all Google results show the donation message, possibly because they 
haven't been indexed recently.

The whole repetition of "Otto Rank. From Wikipedia, the free 
encyclopedia." is redundant. Maybe it is possible to add "the free 
encyclopedia" to the  HTML title of the page, and then reorder the 
contents so that Google will pick up directly at the first sentence of 
the article (which will typically contain the search term).

Axel





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