-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Irving Bennett escribió: >> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 05:17, Naoki <naoki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Don't flame me, just making an observation and voicing an opinion ( and >>> we all know about those ). >>> >>> I typed the following terms into google and hit "I'm feeling Lucky" and >>> this is what I felt about the results.. >>> >> ... >>> "fedora" - Without doubt the most disappointing, and least exciting >>> result of the bunch. >>> >>> Of the fedora sites I tend to lean towards fedoraproject.org being the >>> nicest, fedora.info coming in second, while fedora.us is down for me so >>> I can't tell. >>> >>> I tend to think the same as Bill Hicks when it comes to marketing but it >>> would be nice if Fedora was better represented. >>> >>> Is anybody working on perhaps improving the situation or would this be >>> deemed low priority / unimportant ? >>> >> There's not too terribly much more we can do about this. Google's results >> are >> largely determined by their PageRank formulas a few other automated >> factors, >> and the standing of results can change at any time. fedora.redhat.com was >> long the official Fedora website, and the migration to fedoraproject.org >> has >> been slow in many regards. As more people and websites begin pointing to >> fedoraproject.org instead, that domain will rise in the results. Having >> the >> external references split between the two domains has a negative impact on >> the standings of each. If you want to help, the best thing you can do is >> tell people to direct their links to the fedoraproject.org domain. >> >> -- >> Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes >> nman64@xxxxxxxxx >> >> http://www.n-man.com/ >> >> LinkedIn: >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/nman64 >> >> Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! >> http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ >> -- >> >> -- >> Fedora-marketing-list mailing list >> Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > > I believe Naoki was referring to the quality of the Fedora sites. The > Fedora sites do not have nearly as much information and documentation as > the other sites. We know that much of the excellent Redhat documentation > applies to Fedora as well, but within the Fedora sites there is almost no > documentation. For example, there is no "Fedora User Guide" in the Fedora > sites. Also, if you take a look at Recent Changes in the Fedora Project > site, most of the activity has to do with this group. There is very little > activity in the "real information" area. > > As a long time Fedora user, I have often turned to other places to find > information on how to run my Fedora Linux systems. Most often I turn to > Redhat, or tldp.org. Very seldom do I find answers in fedora.redhat.com, > or fedoraproject.com... The answer, of course, is that some of us have to > pick up that ball, and run with it! > > Saludos, > > Irving Bennett > Panama I was thinking about this the other day, and I think that fedraproject.org should also host the "international" sites of Fedora, in other words a single place for all things Fedora. For me searching on Google's "I feel lucky" for Fedora took me to fedora-es.com, so not that deviated (as I'm a natural Spanish speaker and my Fedora is in Spanish), but still having all fall under the fedoraproject.org/[lang] umbrella would be better, IMO. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEhxK2XM+XOp70dwoRAruYAJ92M/M4r/v3RVgTrP0tXiU1FCMIzQCfdGlk nrG1ASAh37zYG9LVhcq5nRs= =QhQa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
