On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Cox, Serita<serita....@bridgespan.org> wrote: > Google's new search engine, Caffeine, is supposedly kicking Wikipedia > entries further down results page. Thoughts? Comments? > http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39484015,00.htm
[from my comments in #wikimedia-tech the other day] "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." When you're at the top there is no place to go but down. A larger comparison would be nice, but I didn't seen any reason to think that it was a major change. I generally expect the SEO people to over-react to, well, just about everything. (I went on, on IRC, to point some examples of the behavioural change that happened towards the end of 2007 (per my cruddy memory) where non-widely-linked redirects basically fell out of the google index... search terms like "Jesus bug" or many other things like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirects_to_scientific_names ... if we cared about the traffic flux from google we'd see what we could do to fix that) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
