We had thepen and it was a much better place for google to index and so it was a good thing for google to not index PerlMonks directly (it got confused because (www.)?perlmonks.(org|com|net) are all the same site and so would index each page as many as 6 separate ways, it would preserve random, old chunks of ChatterBox conversation for longer than many felt comfortable with, etc.). But thepen silently went away not too long ago.

In the mean time, work was done on making a robot-friendly face for PerlMonks so that we could have google (et al) index us directly, but that work is not finished, unfortunately.

So we are left with no google index. I hope that will be resolved soon, but these things always take longer than most would think they'd be likely to.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Using Google to search perlmonks.org (changes) by tye
in thread Using Google to search perlmonks.org by Scott7477

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