[cc-metadata] Google and CC metadata
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Mar 20 12:23:42 EST 2006
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 12:12 -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> Anyone know what Google looks at to determine the
> "creative-commonsness" of a page?
AFAIK they'll use either comment-embedded RDF or rel="license" with an
appropriate href value. The metadata on wikitravel looks fine. I'd
remove the comment-embedded RDF. Maybe it is confusing Google, as it
contains lots of other statements and who knows how they're handling it.
Did you have rel="license" before adding the comment-embedded RDF?
Regarding Wikipedia, I doubt Google would recognize links to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License as meaningful, and there isn't a rel="license" on them anyway, and I'm pretty sure they ignore LINK'd RDF. Adding rel="license" would be a good first step.
Same for articles that have explicitly CC-licensed content, eg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Feuerpois02.JPG
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