2008/12/11 Andrew Famiglietti afamiglietti@gmail.com:
Also, I'm just curious as to why on earth they have decided to do this. Why host an (awful) machine translation of the french site when you could just as easily host the english wikipedia content? What gives? Does anyone have any idea?
- Andy
Hosting the English wikipedia will get you hammered with a duplicate content penalty so you tend not to rank very high in search results. In theory a machine translation of French would avoid that.