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Re: Search for `Debian' gives EFF as top hit ?



Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> A google search for Debian
>  http://www.google.com/search?q=debian
> gives the top hit as www.eff.org, not www.debian.org.  Now the EFF is
> a very worthy organisation with an excellent PageRank I'm sure, but
> it's probably not what people were looking for when they asked for
> `Debian'.
> 
> Looking at the `cached' page, which is a little garbled, I see:
>  These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: debian
> 
> I haven't been able to figure out why this is happening.

Well, it must be because Google does result sorting based on how many
people link to the result (AFAIK).  Because we have the proper META
keyword elements there.  I don't really know that there's anything we
can do.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@debian.org.....<URL:http://www.debian.org/>



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