- From: Trejkaz <trejkaz@trypticon.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:37:36 +1100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@iinet.net.au>, www-html@w3.org
Received on Sunday, 23 January 2005 01:37:32 UTC
On Sunday 23 January 2005 12:11, you wrote: > Trejkaz wrote: > > I'm starting to wonder why this couldn't have been achieved without > > markup at all. The web server _knows_ that it's Googlebot requesting the > > page. Couldn't the web application simply omit the entire comment > > section? > > You, like Google, seem to be forgetting that a lot of legitimate and > valuable discussion takes place within blog comments. Marking comments > off in a way that tells a search engine to ignore the content or > omitting them entirely is essentially denying their existence. That is > harmful because searches would then fail to return those kind of > results, even though their content may be highly relevent. RTFA. It does not involve ignoring the contents of the comment. TX -- Email: Trejkaz Xaoza <trejkaz@trypticon.org> Web site: http://xaoza.net/ Jabber ID: trejkaz@jabber.zim.net.au GPG Fingerprint: 9EEB 97D7 8F7B 7977 F39F A62C B8C7 BC8B 037E EA73
Received on Sunday, 23 January 2005 01:37:32 UTC