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Tuesday, April 16, 2002[5:02:03 PM]
Google should recognize weblogs as a document and site structure, and link to the archive url, not the main page of the weblog.
This website gets a few hits a day off of Google queries -- often people searching for information about linux on the ipaq. I had some problems, and published the solutions. I'm very pleased that people can find it.
Alas, Google points to the current weblog url, not the archive url. If someone clicks on Google's link, they won't see the information they were looking for. At Google.com, they can go back and get it from Google's cache, but the Google search at Yahoo doesn't seem to give you the link to the cached article. Thus it would be better to point to the archive.
This would require a convention similar to the robots.txt convention. Google is perfectly placed to initiate the convention. Assuming it's reasonable, webloggers would quickly pick it up. The value of our weblogs would go up, as would the value of Google's search engine.
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