Google indexes redirect pages? Could something be added to the code of redirect pages to tell the search engine spiders to skip over them? Would this make searching for pages on Wiki through google work better?
On 9/13/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/13/05, Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. Personally, I only use Google site search on Wikipedia (which, incidently, had [[Sheep shearer]] as the first result for "Blade shears").
I've noticed that Wikicities has a google search box below the built-in search. I wonder if we could have the same?
Considering it pops a Google search box in whenever the search function has been disabled, the code for this must already be out there.
The only problem I have with Wiki-via-Google is that Google also indexes redirect pages. Not the end of the world, but it always looks a little sloppy, but it's not really Google's fault.
I'm not sure what the effect would be of having redirects add a meta robots noindex tag to them, but it might be worth thinking about.
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