Wikipedia talk:What Google liked

message: I really think that this material isn't appropriate for an encyclopedia.  It is more like news, and becomes out-of-date very quickly.  If perhaps this was just an external link, that'd be OK.  Wikipedia is the place for long-term knowledge, not ephemeral statistics.  -- ansible
:I think you are missing the point.  What Google Likes is to point to the pages that might need to be looked over since we are getting outside hits to them.  It is what would be considered a meta article rather than a regular encyclopedia entry. --- Jagged
:Like Jagged said. This page is not actually part of the encyclopedia, but is posted by Jimbo Wales (our esteemed co-founded) to let us know why people are coming to us. It's been around since early on in the project. -- Stephen Gilbert
:Ansible has a point, though, and one that I have pondered myself.  This isn't an encyclopedia article, and so it should probably be moved to a more appropriate meta article location.  How about Wikipedia/What Google Likes? -- Jimbo Wales
:The problem is we have lots of "About Wikipedia" pages that should probably be out of the article namespace. I vote we wait until Magnus' software is ready before moving them all. -- Stephen Gilbert
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This page is now really out of date.  But the information is quite interesting.  Anybody able to update? WillSmith (Malaysia) 16:32 Oct 26, 2002 (UTC)
:Second that. Is there a developer handy to update these statistics? Or a way for a normal person to do so? Atorpen 02:01 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
Thirded, just to add another prod ;-) - Khendon 13:48 Mar 3, 2003 (UTC)
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I renamed this page from "Wikipedia:What Google likes" to "Wikipedia:List of articles frequently visited through Google", because it is the combined result of what users of Google like and how Google indexes. - Patrick 11:03 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)
: I thought the old title was more memorable. Google, as an inanimate object, can't "like" things, so I think the possibility of confusion is minimal. Ahh well - aesthetics... Martin
::It was not clear, it could mean something like Wikipedia:Subjects for which a Wikipedia article is in the Google top 10, A-K. - Patrick 11:44 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)
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How do one see the statistics related to this page? It would be easier, then, to update it. Yves 17:34 May 15, 2003 (UTC)
For that matter, it would be helpful if we could somehow see failed searches within Wikipedia, where "failed" maybe means a search that was performed without clicking on any of the results (I know this may be hard, particularly for non-cookied users, but perhaps something is better than nothing).  A lower-tech tactic would be to include a prominent link to the requested articles page on the search page, to make it easy for users to record what they were looking for.
Zashaw 02:39, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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message: *Wikipedia:List of articles frequently visited through Google hasn't been updated since early March. I posted in the talk pages in early October asking if there was any plan to update, and no one responded. Super-stale pages like this give a false impression of where effort should be concentrated. --Raul654 11:14, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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message: This article survived a deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splashtalk 21:32, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
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