Comments on: Filing Google bugs… but where?

By: AsbjÃ¸rn Ulsberg

AsbjÃ¸rn Ulsberg — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:10:03 +0000

The feeds should obviously be excluded from the search results. Anything not being “text/html” or “application/xhtml+xml” should be excluded or at least marked up properly as not being an HTML result (like PDF and PPT files are). When clicking a feed search result, Google should do as it does with other non-HTML results; show an alternative “view as HTML”, so it’s possible to view it in the browser.

By: Tiago Rodrigues

Tiago Rodrigues — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:47:02 +0000

Just do what you did Blog about it ! I did it last week about the Reader and Gears combination and I had a comment from a member of the Reader developer team in less than a day asking for more details.

By: dAniel hAhler

dAniel hAhler — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:40:51 +0000

Maybe the problem is also that the feed seems invalid. At least also Firefox does not think it’s a feed when you go there.
But Google could of course detect/classify it nonetheless.

By: sadam

sadam — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:57:00 +0000

I’ve noticed the same thing recently with xml for a html document. The assistant on my floor was trying to find articles for my professor and found the xml and didn’t know what to do with it. I deleted a few items off the end of the URL and we found the html file. She shouldn’t have to know how to do that.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:56:32 +0000

As the feeds are just an other version of what exists everywhere, and often in a less informative way (worse for the first encounter, evaluating the feed contents), they shouldn’t really be shown at all imho in any search results.

By: Sacha

Sacha — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:17:21 +0000

I think it shouldn’t show the feed as a result whatsoever. However, it should show the main site as a result with the ‘feed icon’ beside it (like in your second image but without a second result) with a link to subscribe to the feed.

By: Willem

Willem — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:48:20 +0000

Or bether yet (with some googling )

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=irrelevant&contact_type=irrelevant&stage=fm&contact_typemaster=prob&bugs=irrelevant&Action.Search=Continue

By: ssam

ssam — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:40:20 +0000

“Is there a place to file Google bugs?”

anywhere. the eye of google sees everything

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:49:58 +0000

Perhaps you have to be logged in to get this form?

http://www.google.com/quality_form?q=foo+bar&hl=en&safe=off&pwst=1