imathis/octopress — pull request #415 by joliss (2012-02-11 02:33:30+00:00)
Title: Remove link rel="canonical"

This is broken for categories (they are missing a slash), and
it is also inconsistent with the internal linking: The permalinks
have a trailing slash, whereas the canonical URLs don't.

It is probably easiest to just remove this.

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Google is actually ignoring this:
On https://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&q=Octopress+2.0+Surfaces the first hit has a trailing slash, but the canonical URL in the source doesn't.

I say instead of fixing this, we should just remove it -- the value to be had from this feature is rather little.