Why would Google want to start being honest and straightforward? Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Snow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 19 January 2024 17:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Google not indexing Wikisource for last few years now. I realize SEO has its own jargon, but to those not immersed in the field it is completely tautological to say a page is not indexed because "the indexing process determines that the page is unlikely to be requested in search." In an open-ended search, you aren't necessarily requesting a specific page, you're only asking the search engine to point you to pages that will hopefully be relevant to your query. It would be more honest and straightforward for Google to say that "based on our knowledge of what people search for, your page would appear so rarely among the highest-ranked results that we're not going to bother including it in our index." --Michael Snow On 1/19/2024 4:55 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am Nicholas Perry, Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships at WMF. Following up on Jorge's previous email to add a summary of Google's recent response to this issue, which was originally shared by Suman on this Phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607. > > ---- > The web is really large and the search index can simply not include every single page. A page that otherwise has no problems may not be indexed for a myriad of complex reasons, for instance if the indexing process determines that the page is unlikely to be requested in search. This is in line with the Search Central documentation that states: "Google doesn't guarantee that it will crawl, index, or serve your page, even if your page follows the Google Search Essentials." > ---- > > Google also shared a document containing resource links, which can be found in the Phabricator ticket. They also encouraged people to submit any questions and attend their SEO Office Hours (https://developers.google.com/search/help/office-hours), with the caveat that Google might not be able to answer all questions in a given instance. > > Best, > > Nicholas _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/ message/N2DTL2NU377YCEGAQAVRF7EPCGB76OAB/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/E2ZX7E5ABTFXKLUWS2MNVWTBMXJPBKYO/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
