[ot] end 'community ass'

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 15 February 2009 16:56:35 steve wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> I understand that there has been a discussion about the matter on this
> >> mailing list, however, i am wondering whether the fact that these
> >> headers would contribute to the way google sees the archive was
> >> considered ? What i mean is, compare:
> >>
> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=fedora+help
> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=fedora+community
> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=fedora+assistance
> >
> > Seriously, if you have a problem would you be likely to put any of those
> > into the searchbox?
>
> ehe ...that's *exactly* point i was trying to make, in case you missed it.
> Starting with the most likely, but not relevant query (fedora+help) to the
> least likely but most relevant query (community+assistance+fedora), to
> match an actual post in our archives.
>
> To be more explicit, I am more likely to use:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=fedora+help+with+wireless
> (which does *not* show any posts from the list, although it should)
>
>   ... than use ...
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=fedora+community+assistance+with+wireless
> (which *does* show up posts from the list, but is the least likely to
> occur)
>
Whereas I wouldn't use any of those.  I'd simply use fedora+wireless+ath5k or 
some such, so that subject line would have no impact on the return, which, 
incidentally, is 16,200 results.

Anne

Anne
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