Re: vim update

Marco wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:31:20AM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> Hi Bram,
> > > The same thing (.htaccess on apache) would also work on
> > > http://a-a-p.org . Meta-directs (what is there actually) can be
> > > evil, I had to learn the hard way recently.
> > 
> > What is so bad about meta stuff?
> 
> e.g.
> http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml
> 
> (see Method 2)
> 
> Anyway, in the http://a-a-p.org case, there probably won't result
> bad things out of it, it's still not the way how it should get
> done I think.
> 
> 
> My personal notes about it below (may ignore so):
> 
> Search-Engines actually ignore them, or even see something bad at
> them: 'ah. someone wants to show me (robot) this, but the user
> shall see something different'.
> 
> Search engines will still index/cache that thing there, it would
> not when there is some permanent redirect.
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help there are
> also quite some articles about it.
> 
> I personally had somekind of 'hell' recently, because I was using
> those redirects, assuming the robots would understand them and
> behave accordingly. They didn't. That whole thing ended up that
> google had the same pages on the old and new domain, and therefore
> sent the new one to the end of the search-results (500+) because
> of the 'same content filter' or so. Actually after 3 month now,
> it's ok (puhhh) - it removed those old pages from the cache
> finally.
> 
> Additionally permanent redirects, be it .htaccess or php, transfer
> the 'value' of the old pages to the new ones, just in case.  That
> workes quite nice, had to do that recently ;) (Also not a matter
> in a-a-p.org so).

Thanks for the hints.  SourceForge is currently down, I'll look into
this later.

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