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Gnomon - time to move on Started conversation May 30, 2005
The tinkering that Jim Lynn did with the site earlier this year to make it more visible to Google has worked wonders. But now we have another problem. Google is indexing all the "pda" pages, and returning them as results in a Google search. This means that somebody on a PC searching for "irish neolithic tombs" (for example) gets back h2g2 as the first hit in Google, but it is to the PDA version of the page. I don't think this would encourage anybody to explore the site.
Can we modify the system so that the pda-format pages are not indexed by Google?
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jun 6, 2005
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Paully Posted Jun 7, 2005
We're looking into it guys - just waiting for a reply back from the wonderful Mr Lynn!
Paully
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Jun 7, 2005
I get the regular old hootoo page first, for some entries -- including the irish neolithic tombs, although I see the pda version if I scroll down. For other entries, I see the pda page first.
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- 4: Gnomon - time to move on (Jun 7, 2005)
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