www/159652: PR is not visible to search engines

[Remko Lodder]

The following reply was made to PR www/159652; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org>
To: Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd at gmail.com>
Cc: <remko at freebsd.org>, bug-followup <bug-followup at freebsd.org>,
 <freebsd-www at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: www/159652: PR is not visible to search engines
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:40:41 +0200

 Hello Marcin,
 
 > I disagree. It is a serious problem and should not be ignored just
 > because of infrastructure limitations.
 
 I disagree. This is not a serious problem. It is a perfect valid choice
 given the infrastructure we have. So we decided NOT to get this indexed
 by google via the CGI scripts. It is fine that you do not agree with
 that
 but as long as the system administrators for FreeBSD do not wave the
 white
 flag for this, this is not going to change, no matter what your opinion
 about
 this is. It had been noted though that you disagree and would like the
 behaviour
 changed. If it will be changed, you will notice it soon enough.
 
 > Why bother having a web page if it not findable on google ?
 
 Because it's interactive for your purpose and not google's?
 
 > Besides, it could be solved with caching or by exporting content to
 > static pages with periodic updates.
 
 There are possibly many more alternatives, however, we decided to take
 this
 route, and will taking the route untill someone that can decide about
 this
 over the possible impact will change the course.
 
 Thank you for trying to make FreeBSD better.
 
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