[WikiEN-l] Ban notices, Wikipedia, and search engines.

[David Gerard]

On 26/09/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> And until we have a much better internal search, people are going to
> keep using external search engines to find that stuff. We'd lose a lot
> of utility if we noindexed it all outright without having a decent
> replacement of our own.


Yes. Note the complaints about the mailing lists being blocked from
indexing and Google being replaced with ht://dig, which is actually
much worse than useless.


- d.