Comments on: iPlayer: search resolution http://www.technogoggles.com/2008/11/iplayer-search-resolution/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:57:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kostya http://www.technogoggles.com/2008/11/iplayer-search-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-525 Kostya Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:12:01 +0000 http://www.technogoggles.com/?p=299#comment-525 <strong><a href="http://znk.videotapes.ru" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="http://qhn.videotapes.ru" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://gmd.videotapes.ru" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="http://qsh.videotapes.ru" rel="nofollow"> </a>...</strong> Хм..<b><a href="http://opk.videotapes.ru" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="http://qr3.videotapes.ru" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="http://agd.videotapes.ru" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="http://fsm.videotapes.ru" rel="nofollow"> </a>... …

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]]> By: frankie http://www.technogoggles.com/2008/11/iplayer-search-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-119 frankie Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:03:18 +0000 http://www.technogoggles.com/?p=299#comment-119 Interesting. I guess the BBC have to weigh up whether it's worth removing iPlayer pages from the Google index (via a robots meta-tag) when the videos are no longer available. They'll lose some inbound traffic, but might improve the user experience (after all, the pages don't have a lot of value without the video, as all the textual information plus more is available on the equivalent /programme page). One point you got wrong, albeit understandably, is that the BBC's programme ontology (which uses the pids) DOES have the concept of 'a series', and even a programme 'brand' - however only the episodes themselves get an iPlayer page currently. There is a /programmes page for series and brands though - eg see <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m8q4" rel="nofollow">Something Special</a>. I discuss the distinction between iPlayer pages and /programmes pages <a href="http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/898" rel="nofollow">over on my blog</a> - increasingly it seems a bit pointless to have 2 pages for the same programme, other than for 'marketing' reasons... Interesting. I guess the BBC have to weigh up whether it’s worth removing iPlayer pages from the Google index (via a robots meta-tag) when the videos are no longer available. They’ll lose some inbound traffic, but might improve the user experience (after all, the pages don’t have a lot of value without the video, as all the textual information plus more is available on the equivalent /programme page).
One point you got wrong, albeit understandably, is that the BBC’s programme ontology (which uses the pids) DOES have the concept of ‘a series’, and even a programme ‘brand’ – however only the episodes themselves get an iPlayer page currently. There is a /programmes page for series and brands though – eg see Something Special.
I discuss the distinction between iPlayer pages and /programmes pages over on my blog – increasingly it seems a bit pointless to have 2 pages for the same programme, other than for ‘marketing’ reasons…

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