[advocacy] Vorbis and google

[Segher Boessenkool]

"David K. Gasaway" wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that google hasn't indexed the main vorbis sites very well...
> 
> 1) None of the mailing list archives are indexed.  Somebody, somewhere must have a link to an
> archive article.  Wouldn't google chain through the rest of the archives from there?  Is google
> (and others, but haven't tested them) blocked from indexing the archives?

This is not true.  It even has the cvs-commit mailing list indexed.

> 
> 2) Vorbis.com is not represented well.  When I search for "vorbis", I get these results:
> Hit #12 - www.vorbis.com/music.html
> Hit #21 - www.vorbis.com/webware.html
> Other hits for vorbis.com are *way* down the list - somewhere past 250, though I know they're in
> there somewhere.  For perspective, ogg-vorbis.com gets hit #5. Thankfully, xiph.org gets the #1
> and #2 spots. :)
> 
> The way that I understand google's algorithm for weighing search hits, the above results just
> don't seem right.

http://www.vorbis.com  is a redirect.  Redirects are not valid google
search results.

<p>Segher

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