[WikiEN-l] Site search

Wed Sep 14 19:28:06 UTC 2005

Google indexes redirect pages? Could something be added to the code of
redirect pages to tell the search engine spiders to skip over them?
Would this make searching for pages on Wiki through google work
better?

On 9/13/05, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Indeed. Personally, I only use Google site search on Wikipedia (which,
> > incidently, had [[Sheep shearer]] as the first result for "Blade
> > shears").
> >
> > I've noticed that Wikicities has a google search box below the
> > built-in search. I wonder if we could have the same?
> 
> 
> Considering it pops a Google search box in whenever the search function has
> been disabled, the code for this must already be out there.
> 
> The only problem I have with Wiki-via-Google is that Google also indexes
> redirect pages. Not the end of the world, but it always looks a little
> sloppy, but it's not really Google's fault.
> 
> I'm not sure what the effect would be of having redirects add a meta robots
> noindex tag to them, but it might be worth thinking about.
> 
> FF
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