{"id":429,"date":"2004-12-22T02:33:24-05:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T10:33:24+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=429"},"modified":"2004-12-22T02:33:24-05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T10:33:24+00:00","slug":"new-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/12\/22\/new-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"New&nbsp;experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Today&#8217;s experiment is to see which search engines follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/struct\/text.html#h-9.2.2\">URIs found in the <code>cite<\/code> attribute of the <code>&lt;q\/&gt;<\/code> and <code>&lt;blockquote\/&gt;<\/code> elements<\/a>.  Like <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/14\/silly-expert-experiment\">the last experiment<\/a>, <q cite=\"\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/14\/silly-expert-experiment\">it&#8217;s not exhaustive and hardly scientific<\/q>; this is just to satisfy my own curiosity.  There&#8217;s a slight oddity that I&#8217;ll point out: I insert the <code>cite<\/code> and <code>title<\/code> attributes on <code>&lt;blockquote\/&gt;<\/code> elements into the DOM dynamically through the use of Javascript.  To my knowledge no search engines attempt to process scripts of any sort so this shouldn&#8217;t affect the results.<\/p>\n\n<p>The data:<\/p>\n\n<p><q cite=\"\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/22\/q-cite\">This page is part one of a search engine experiment.<\/q><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/22\/blockquote-cite\"><p>This page is part two of a search engine experiment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>To see the results, search for the page titles as phrases in your favourite search engine: there are no hits for them at this point and I believe they&#8217;ll remain unique for some time to come.<\/p>\n\n<p>Another similar experiment might be to see if the text in the <code>title<\/code> attribute of any element that supports it is indexed by any engine.<\/p>\n\n<p>Music to experiment by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginitmusic.com\/av.html\"><cite class=\"title\">And The Stars Keep On Shining<\/cite><\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginitmusic.com\/roam.html\"><cite class=\"title\">Roam<\/cite><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginitmusic.com\/\"><cite class=\"name\">Lisa Patterson<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s experiment is to see which search engines follow URIs found in the cite attribute of the &lt;q\/&gt; and &lt;blockquote\/&gt; elements. Like the last experiment, it&#8217;s not exhaustive and hardly scientific; this is just to satisfy my own curiosity. There&#8217;s a slight oddity that I&#8217;ll point out: I insert the cite and title attributes on&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}