From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Getting better Google search results
In-Reply-To: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA355DE@algol.sollentuna.se>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:37:55 -0000
Message-ID: <64f7c031a223d74df451478d38901644@biglumber.com>


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> Wouldn't this be better on -www? :-P

I considered that, but this seems more of an advocacy problem
with a technical solution. I thought the wider advocacy audience
might have some ideas about it.

> Don't we have enough silly domains already? If we want to get rid of
> those hits, why don't we just add a robots.txt and tell google not to
> index the old docs at all? (If people *need* hits in the old docs, they
> can always hit our own search engine for those docs)

I considered that, but I would not want to completely eliminate the
old docs from Google searching. There's always a chance something useful is
there. However, since 99.9% of generic non-version specific searches should
*not* hit those pages, it's best to stick those on the "e" in
Goooooooooooooooooooooooogle. :)

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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