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Title: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: Hothgar on January 26, 2015, 08:21:31 PM
Whenever I search up anything on google using the site: bitcointalk.org thing I get returned plain text results does anyone else have this problem?


for example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0;wap2

Does this url show just plain text for you?


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: Welsh on January 26, 2015, 08:22:59 PM
Remove the ";wap2" from the end of the URL, it will show the page normally then. So here's the link for that thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0

Code: (Example)
Original URL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0;wap2
New/modified URL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: redsn0w on January 26, 2015, 08:26:19 PM
Remove the ";wap2" from the end of the URL, it will show the page normally then. So here's the link for that thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0

Code: (Example)
Original URL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0;wap2
New/modified URL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0

Yes the wap version is for the mobile surfing , it is more fast.


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: Blazr on January 26, 2015, 08:26:24 PM
Use this search instead:

https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=016660200577587308545%3Aesf40ml9aag&ie=UTF-8t&sa=Google+search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.sort=

Its a Google Custom Search for bitcointalk.org. It doesn't have the ;wap2 in the url of the search results.


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: Hothgar on January 26, 2015, 08:27:35 PM
Thanks everyone that's embarrassing  ::) 8)


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: deepceleron on January 29, 2015, 01:01:07 PM
The WAP2 links should be blocked from indexing by search engines. Hasn't been done. Even the Google result to find my post below returned the wap2 page.

theymos can make a robots.txt with these lines added:

User-agent: *
...(other stuff)
Disallow: /index.php?action=printpage
Disallow:  /index.php?wap2



Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: HeroC on January 29, 2015, 10:04:27 PM
I know we can remove the ;wap2 , but it gets annoying when you need to do it everytime.


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: Corenin on January 31, 2015, 03:39:56 PM
this is showing WAP(mobile) version of the forum if you want to turn it to desktop version like this then just remove the ";wap2" from the end of the url and you will see normal


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: b!z on February 01, 2015, 06:50:05 AM
The WAP2 links should be blocked from indexing by search engines. Hasn't been done. Even the Google result to find my post below returned the wap2 page.

theymos can make a robots.txt with these lines added:

User-agent: *
...(other stuff)
Disallow: /index.php?action=printpage
Disallow:  /index.php?wap2


Yep. I don't see any reason not to make this small change.


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: Richy_T on January 02, 2016, 04:24:12 AM
The WAP2 links should be blocked from indexing by search engines. Hasn't been done. Even the Google result to find my post below returned the wap2 page.

theymos can make a robots.txt with these lines added:

User-agent: *
...(other stuff)
Disallow: /index.php?action=printpage
Disallow:  /index.php?wap2


Yep. I don't see any reason not to make this small change.

Well, with the new forum software coming real soon now...

Oh wait, this was over a year ago and it's still doing it.


Title: Re: Google showing strange results for this forum
Post by: target on January 02, 2016, 06:28:04 AM
Thanks everyone that's embarrassing  ::) 8)

i was once like you though. don't worry you're not the only who experience such :)