Yahoo announced support for the same thing yesterday.
Apparently there is industry wide support. |
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Unite On “Canonical Tag” To Reduce Duplicate Content Clutter: http://searchengineland.com/canonical-tag-16537
Fighting Duplication: Adding more arrows to your quiver: http://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fighting-duplication-adding-more-arrows-to-your-quiver/
Partnering to help solve duplicate content issues: http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2009/02/12/partnering-to-help-solve-duplicate-content-issues.aspx
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(Thanks, I added an update!) |
Yay, I'm very happy about this. :) |
This is great! (And I'm happy to see that MediaWiki already supports this; I've often wondered how the search engines index the redirects in Wikipedia.) |
This is great news. Quite a clean implementation as well for the semantic Web... perhaps not just search engines? |