- From: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:21:49 -0500
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@Adobe.COM>
- Cc: "julian.reschke@gmx.de" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Le 25 nov. 2009 à 10:50, Larry Masinter a écrit : > # Content Negotiation on languages > > Yes, using content negotiation for language selection interferes with page ranking. […] > 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? Not sure about that. But that could be an open question for crawler developers. > # Vary: Accent-Language > > You noted that the "Vary" header is unlikely to help in indexing. But the "Vary:" header was never intended or designed to have any effect on search engines. Understood that. > it doesn't reveal the full list of alternatives available. Unfortunately, Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP has never been widely implemented, deployed. http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/ I wonder if search engines developers would be more interested now. > Could you use "referer" or "origin" for filtering instead? No because you do not necessary from where you will be hit. -- Karl Dubost Montréal, QC, Canada http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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