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Re: [link-relations] NEW RELATION - canonical

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 15 April 2011 18:30 UTC

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On 15.04.2011 20:09, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Relation Name: canonical
> Description:   A "canonical" URI is the preferred version of a set of URIs
>                 with highly similar content.  It is intended to help search
>                 engines when the same or highly similar similar content is
>                 available at different URIs.
> Reference:     About rel="canonical"
>                 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394
> Notes:         In<http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/>  and
>                 <http://gregable.com/2009/02/relcanonical.html>  the authors
>                 state that Ask, Bing, Google, and Yahoo supported canonical
>                 URIs as of February, 2009.

Frank,

we do have people at Google looking into writing a "proper" spec -- 
maybe you are willing to assist them, given your IETF know-how?

Best regards, Julian

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