Activity log for bug #888353

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2011-11-09 23:55:53 Martin Pool bug added bug
2011-11-10 14:59:29 Curtis Hovey tags search
2011-11-16 10:14:00 Martin Pool summary google could give better snippets if launchpad used schemas.org microformats google could give better snippets if launchpad used schema.org microformats
2011-11-16 10:14:09 Martin Pool description At present Google gives relatively poor snippets of content when it finds pages from Launchpad, typically containing a lot of the header text and not a lot of interesting content. It could do better if Launchpad pages were marked up with http://schemas.org/ microformats giving a little bit of machine parseable semantic content. For the sake of defining how long the bit of string is, this bug could be considered complete when at least the main bug page has some amount of markup on it, as that's a very commonly hit page. We then can see if that actually improves the results. (This is not Google-specific; Yahoo, Bing and others recognize similar formats. see also bug 869609. At present Google gives relatively poor snippets of content when it finds pages from Launchpad, typically containing a lot of the header text and not a lot of interesting content. It could do better if Launchpad pages were marked up with http://schema.org/ microformats giving a little bit of machine parseable semantic content. For the sake of defining how long the bit of string is, this bug could be considered complete when at least the main bug page has some amount of markup on it, as that's a very commonly hit page. We then can see if that actually improves the results. (This is not Google-specific; Yahoo, Bing and others recognize similar formats. see also bug 869609.
2011-11-16 10:15:48 Martin Pool attachment added before https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/888353/+attachment/2598498/+files/20111116_001.png
2011-11-16 10:16:28 Martin Pool description At present Google gives relatively poor snippets of content when it finds pages from Launchpad, typically containing a lot of the header text and not a lot of interesting content. It could do better if Launchpad pages were marked up with http://schema.org/ microformats giving a little bit of machine parseable semantic content. For the sake of defining how long the bit of string is, this bug could be considered complete when at least the main bug page has some amount of markup on it, as that's a very commonly hit page. We then can see if that actually improves the results. (This is not Google-specific; Yahoo, Bing and others recognize similar formats. see also bug 869609. At present Google gives relatively poor snippets of content when it finds pages from Launchpad, typically containing a lot of the header text and not a lot of interesting content. It could do better if Launchpad pages were marked up with http://schema.org/ microformats giving a little bit of machine parseable semantic content. For the sake of defining how long the bit of string is, this bug could be considered complete when at least the main bug page has some amount of markup on it, as that's a very commonly hit page. We then can see if that actually improves the results. (This is not Google-specific; Yahoo, Bing and others recognize similar formats. see also bug 869609. There is a test tool at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
2011-11-19 05:51:05 Martin Pool branch linked lp:~mbp/launchpad/888353-microformats
2011-11-21 09:28:28 Raphaël Badin bug added subscriber Raphaël Badin
2011-11-24 15:30:26 Launchpad QA Bot launchpad: assignee Martin Pool (mbp)
2011-11-24 15:30:27 Launchpad QA Bot tags search qa-needstesting search
2011-11-24 15:30:29 Launchpad QA Bot launchpad: status Triaged Fix Committed
2011-11-24 23:28:28 Martin Pool tags qa-needstesting search qa-ok search
2011-11-25 18:16:44 Aaron Bentley launchpad: status Fix Committed Fix Released
2012-01-11 08:37:38 Martin Pool tags qa-ok search microformats qa-ok search