Launchpad offers search engine users non-existent functionality for many projects
Bug #157280 reported by
Mary Gardiner
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Brad Crittenden | ||
Bug Description
This is related to my question at https:/
As soon as a project is registered in Launchpad, Launchpad makes search engine indexable pages for it with titles like: "Translations of [project name] in Launchpad", "FAQs for [project name]". These pages are not helpful for a search engine user looking for that project *unless* the project is actually using that functionality in Launchpad. For all other projects, it offers false hope to search engine users looking for that project: a very promising title that leads them to a page saying "there are no FAQs" or "you need to enable translations" and so on.
Bug 103116 is the equivalent for people.
| description: | updated |
Revision history for this message
| Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Christian Reis (kiko) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in launchpad-registry: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| Changed in launchpad-registry: | |
| milestone: | none → 10.11 |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
| assignee: | nobody → Brad Crittenden (bac) |
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We can easily prevent indexing of such pages if the related 'Officially uses' launchpad is False.