- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:35:04 -0500
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>, "julian.reschke@gmx.de" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2009-11 -25, at 10:50, Larry Masinter wrote: >> I read in the tag minutes ... http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Aug/0067.html > > masinter: That was the original conception when .... > > I said more, but I talk faster than anyone can reasonably keep up > with. The "..." ellipses were paragraphs. But was there some issue > with what was minuted? > > # Content Negotiation on languages > > Yes, using content negotiation for language selection interferes > with page ranking. Depending on whether the search engine is aware of the various language-specific resources through metadata about them. If that is the case, then the the kudos of all the related pages is merged and a dingle entry can be presented to the user. > Presumably you mean "by Google". Whether the same is true for any > other search engine is unclear, but I suppose other search engines > are forced to reverse engineer Google's page ranking in the same way > that browsers are forced to reverse engineer Internet Explorer. No, they compete to make them better. There is no reason to copy Google's faults. If they can find a more relevant page then more power to them. > Should there be standards specifying what parts of URIs search > engines should or should not pay attention to, or whether they > should index content-negotiated pages? No, there should be standards for metadata explaining what is going on. Tim
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