Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?
Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes is doesn't. Has anyone else seen this? Does anybody know anything about this? http://yfrog.com/hsylhpej --Kul ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?
2011/3/19 Kul Takanao Wadhwa : > Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is > experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow > users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search > results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes is doesn't. Has > anyone else seen this? Does anybody know anything about this? > Corroboration: http://www.bechrome.com/como-bloquear-sitios-en-los-resultados-de-google/ Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just wikipedia.org or other/all sites. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?
2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > wikipedia.org or other/all sites. Bence pointed to this explanation: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?
On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : >> Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't >> been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just >> wikipedia.org or other/all sites. > Bence pointed to this explanation: > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html > Thx. I know about the general blocking option but wanted to know if anyone has seen other sites, besides Wikipedia, specifically called out too. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: > On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > >> Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > >> been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > >> wikipedia.org or other/all sites. > > Bence pointed to this explanation: > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html > > > Thx. I know about the general blocking option but wanted to know if > anyone has seen other sites, besides Wikipedia, specifically called out > too. > > I haven't seen this feature in action yet, but if I understood how it works, it gives the blocking option for the site you just visited (presuming that it was a bad result and that's why you returned to the search page), that way you wouldn't see other sites called out if you return from a Wikipedia result, but you would if you choose some other result. It is just "unlucky", that Wikipedia has 10M+ pages, so a simple block based on the domain can go a huge way... Best regards, Bence > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: > On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > >> Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > >> been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > >> wikipedia.org or other/all sites. > > Bence pointed to this explanation: > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html > > > Thx. I know about the general blocking option but wanted to know if > anyone has seen other sites, besides Wikipedia, specifically called out > too. > > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > I first thought it might have had something to do with google's new search algorithm. I thought a similar feature had been around for a while, to block results from a particular site. There was a star option earlier to prioritize results from a particular site, it seems to be a natural progression. It seems to be a personalized search feature, not directly related to Wikipedia visibility in search results. Theo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > It seems to be a personalized search feature, not directly related to > Wikipedia visibility in search results. Two things: 1) before you actually come to this "feature", you'd have to go to the Wikipedia page, and then back to Google. It does not appear by default. 2) I can see how it could be harmful in that someone blocks a page they don't like on Wikipedia and end up blocking Wikipedia altogether. It then all depends on how easy it is to "unblock" Wikipedia. (this is true of Wikipedia, but also any other website, actually, just, as Bence pointed out, the potential for blocking is multiplied by the number of times Wikipedia appears as first choice in your search. One thing that might be worth telling Google would be to have some kind of warning when one searches from something else entirely, that would say "results are also present in one of the sites you blocked" or something like that, so that the hurdle of looking into your preferences is not barring people from even thinking about unblocking the websites they've blocked because of one page. Delphine -- @notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?
2011/3/20 Delphine Ménard > > One thing that might be worth telling Google would be to have some > kind of warning when one searches from something else entirely, that > would say "results are also present in one of the sites you blocked" > or something like that, so that the hurdle of looking into your > preferences is not barring people from even thinking about unblocking > the websites they've blocked because of one page. > > Apparently they show a text like "2 blocked results are not shown, click to view them" either at the top or the bottom of the results page depending on the place of the blocked results. Best regards, Bence ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
