Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Xowiki calendar offering ancient navigation?

5: Re: Xowiki calendar offering ancient navigation? (response to 1)

Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 09/15/08 10:54 AM

There is a related problem with forums. About 70% of the google-bot queries for forums are of the form /forums/message-post?parent_id=1013710, which will certainly fail. These requests are coming from the reply_buttons (per message and per thread)

i have changed this logic on openacs.org, such that (a) permissions(post_p) is used by the included adp chunks for controlling the visibility, and (b) by basing the display of the reply in message-view only on permissions(post_p) (the current code uses "$permissions(post_p) || [ad_conn user_id] == 0"). If there is interest, i can change this on head as well.

6: Re: Xowiki calendar offering ancient navigation? (response to 5)

Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 09/15/08 07:54 PM

here is another problem of this category: search.

Googlebot loves search and iterates over all pages offered (it searches e.g. /search/search?q=confusion&search_package_id=&offset=1300). I counted 50 google searches in the last 30 seconds. Maybe the initial query happens, when someone posts a search query to a forum or to a public site.

For now, i have deactivated search for the googlebot on openacs.org. Since every information found via search should as well be found via navigation, there should not be a significant loss of visibity on google. Counterexamples might be file-content, only exposed via search. If people think differently, i have no problem to take this small change back.

7: Re: Xowiki calendar offering ancient navigation? (response to 6)

Posted by Brian Fenton on 09/16/08 12:25 PM

I hope you're right Gustaf. I do all my OpenACS searching using Google as I have found the results from an OpenACS search not to be the best.

But let's see how it goes,

Brian