dlang google summary
FeepingCreature
default_357-line at yahoo.de
Thu Aug 2 04:35:30 PDT 2012
On 08/02/12 05:41, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, August 02, 2012 05:34:37 cal wrote:
>> Just wanted to point out that for a while now when you type dlang
>> into google, the summary that google puts up starts with the
>> latin from the input to the sample code on the main page:
>>
>> Standard input. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
>> adipiscing elit. Mauris tristique rutrum sem, nec convallis enim
>> bibendum ut. Donec ac dolor tortor, ...
>>
>> Whereas it used to have a sensible summary like 'Modelling power,
>> native efficiency', etc. Bing doesn't do this.
>>
>> Not end of the world stuff, but it looks a little hacky, maybe
>> instead of the latin, you could use an english summary of D, I
>> dunno.
>
> It looks like that text is what's used as the default arguments for the
> program at the top of the front page, but as far as I can tell, there's no way
> to actually see that text without looking at the page's source, so the fact
> that Google is showing it is rather funny. I do kind of wonder why Google
> grabbed that instead of the "The D programming language. Modern conve
> nience. Modeling power. Native efficiency." at the top of the page though.
> Maybe it doesn't grab headers? In either case, it does make the google search
> a bit weird.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>
Why not just preface the standard input text with the D line?
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