R devel - Nov 2011 - Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage (bump)

Hello dear R-devel,

I am allowing myself to bump this issue again (half a year later) -
I think that the www.r-project.org website could benefit from having a
description meta-tag.
Could anyone please let me know who to contact regarding this?

With much respect,
Tal




On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tal Galili <tal.galili@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> Here is what google says:
> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264
>
> <http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264>
>>
>> We use *a number of different sources* for this information, including
>> descriptive information in the META tag for each page. Where this
>> information isn't available, we may use publicly available
information from
>> DMOZ. While accurate meta descriptions can improve clickthrough, they
won't
>> impact your ranking within search results.
>
>
>
> By the way, here is a short post (
> http://pineda-krch.com/2011/03/31/what-is-r-really/) suggesting that the
> one-line description of R should be:
> "R is a free and open source environment for computational research
and
> graphics."
> I thought his claims might be of interest for this context.
>
>
> With much respect,
>  Tal
>
>
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> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:38 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2011, at 08:49 , Tal Galili wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> > I hope I'm writing to the correct place.
>> >
>> > I believe that the R homepage will benefit from including the
>> "description"
>> > meta tag in it's homepage.
>> > The reason is that google uses that tag to decide what to show
when the
>> R
>> > homepage shows up on a search result.
>> > The current description of the first result of searching
"R" in google
>> is:
>> >
>> > "*R*, also called GNU S, is a strongly functional language
and
>> environment
>> > to statistically explore data sets, make many graphical displays
of data
>> > from custom *..."*
>> > *
>> > *
>> > This defention is truncated.
>>
>>
>> Interesting. What's odd is that although that phrasing is used in
>> multiple places on the net, it is not in the actual
>> www.r-project.org/index.html, nor in any other "official"
places that I
>> can spot.
>>
>> However, what gets displayed for SAS and Stata is not what is in their
>> description tags?
>>
>> SAS:
>> <meta content="SAS Business Analytics software -- 30+ years of
experience
>> and 50,000+ customer sites worldwide. View success stories, analyst
reports
>> &amp; demos." name="description" />
>>
>> Stata:
>> <meta name="description" content="Data Analysis and
Statistical Software
>> for Professionals" />
>>
>> What gives?
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > It seems that other statistical packages (and some known open
source
>> > projects) already noticed this.  Here is what they write about
>> themselves
>> > (when searching for their name on google):
>> >
>> >   - SAS: 50,000 Customer Sites Use SAS for CRM, BI, Analytics
& More-Get
>> >   Info
>> >   - SPSS: Analytical Software at SPSS.com. Specializing in data
mining,
>> >   customer relationship management, business intelligence and data
>> analysis.
>> >   - JMP: JMP is statistical software for expert data analysis,
DOE, and
>> Six
>> >   Sigma, from SAS. For Mac, Windows, and Linux.
>> >   - Stata: Integrated statistical package for data analysis, data
>> >   management and graphics.
>> >   - Perl: The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and
other
>> >   helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.
>> >   - Matematica: Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, the only
fully
>> >   integrated technical computing software.
>> >   - It seems that Python, Ruby, and Matlab are not using any
description
>> >   tag (and their google description is also truncated)
>> >
>> >
>> > I hope this helps.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Tal
>> >
>> >
>> > ----------------Contact
>> > Details:-------------------------------------------------------
>> > Contact me: Tal.Galili@gmail.com |  972-52-7275845
>> > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il
(Hebrew)
>> |
>> > www.r-statistics.com (English)
>> >
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