[WikiEN-l] Re: Site search

Thu Sep 15 15:11:54 UTC 2005

Pawe³ Dembowski wrote:
>>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?
> 
> Not really, it would give us less google hits. It would be better if
> Google indexed redirect pages and the target page as one page.

And it would, if the redirects were actual proper HTTP redirects. But 
people don't want to implement this because it would lose the 
"Redirected from <otherpagetitle>" message.