1141596 - MDN appearing in Yahoo search results for technical terms out of MDN's scope

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: API, defect)

Description

[Stephanie Hobson [:shobson]]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2015-03-10 at 8.45.08.png

I did a search for "delete VMware fusion VM" and got the MDN banner (screen shot attached).

I've also seen it in response to queries about Git and jQuery, both of which MDN can't help with (though it is possible a straight Javascript solution would be an acceptable response to a query by someone else, but I know the difference :P )

Comment 1

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

Filed. We'll identify why this is being triggered, and kill this.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

It is the 146th most searched term in our internal search engine.

There are plenty of generic/non-pertinent terms in the top-500 list (E.g. "facebook", "children", "shift", "scroll"). 

Kev: Should we revisit the whole list on our side? Also I have plenty of less commonly searched terms that I would to see trigger the MDN widget (HTML, CSS, JS-related words). How should we process?

Comment 3

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

I'm getting to the point where I think I'm going to ask them to bucket it vs. general availability. I'll sync with them this week, and we can work on tweaking it without affecting users.

Comment 4

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

We can also refine the list on our side by excluding terms with low "Time after search" and/or "Avg. Search Depth"

E.g., nearly all facebook searches have "Time after search" < 60s

Comment 5

[Stormy Peters]

Attachment: How to rename a Github file (isn't an MDN topic)

Here's another example.

Comment 6

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

Marking fixed, as the MDN content was removed from results shortly after it was made available, and never reinstated.