[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Question to post...

[Brion Vibber]

On 8/13/09 5:28 PM, Angela wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxwell at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> "So— I tried 20 random words, and the WP result was lower in four of
>> them, the same in the rest."
>> "No pattern really...  We still have the problem with "article at funny name;
>> redirect from common name; common name search on google gives squat",
>> which I consider to be much more major."
>
> A simple solution to this is using the canonical tags which all major
> search engines started supporting earlier this year.

That's been deployed for a while, eg:

<link rel="canonical" href="/wiki/Foobar" />
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo

-- brion