On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I think that's obvious. In all seriousness though,
we may want to
consider the possibility of letting users know about features they are
missing out on.
If someone has a good idea of how to do this without being annoying,
that would be reasonable.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Daniel Friesen
<lists(a)nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:
I read a note before that someone caught
Microsoft's Bing making a
number of requests to their site with a UA that makes it look like ie6
and inflates stats.
http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/dear-microsoft
Are the stats setup to differentiate between real ie6 users and bing
autosurfing?
I'd be pretty surprised if Bing is generating enough traffic to
noticeably affect the percentage, even if it does get counted as IE6.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Someone from Microsoft told this guy that they spoof
the UA because
some sites won't give content to UAs they don't recognise, including
the msnbot:
http://eng.genius.com/blog/2010/01/12/user-agent-strings/
Funny how every other search engine manages to use a real UA string . . .