On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Russavia <russavia.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I can confirm that my edit to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia_%E2%80%93_Malvinas_Argentinas_Interna…
has now fixed the issue in Google search as it relates to that article, but
the issue still remains on 8,600,000 articles (up from 8,540,000 articles
yesterday).
site:wikipedia.org "Dear Wikipedia readers" produces 936,000 results
for me. Please note that Google uses a distributed index, and
depending where you are geographically, and where Google sends you
based on server load, you will get inconsistent results from query to
query. See this paper for a bit more detail on how these index
inconsistencies manifest:
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/papers/bobble-pam14.pdf
Pages we know to have been re-crawled don't exhibit the issue, so it
should be only a matter of time for the index to catch up. Please also
note that the text being in the index does not automatically mean that
it will show up in a typical search. Any search for the phrase itself
will highlight it in the snippet (extract) shown in the search result
page as a match, while a typical search will not include the phrase
and will much less frequently identify the text to be a good match for
the user's search query, mitigating global user impact significantly.
We'd still like to resolve this completely as quickly as possible, of
course.
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation