Marcel Bollmann

Whatever the reasoning for always generating the `` block was, I still suspect it's the wrong solution to a problem I don't yet understand.

While we have the current front page (it's really becoming a liability especially with the addition of more and more venues...), this would be the desired solution, yes. If you...

Well, we do have control over how we *configure* the Google Custom Search, and the stark discrepancy in results between different sorting options could be a sign that something is...

> [aclanthology.org/search/?q=snowdon+nun](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=snowdon+nun) Hmm, I see now that the search results for @jeisner's query are almost exclusively PDF files, probably because that query hardly appears in titles/abstracts, but only the fulltext....

Thanks @jeisner! So from that document, what we could try is adding PDF files to the sitemap with meta information like this: ```xml https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.1.pdf ``` This should hopefully add metadata...

Ah, my bad. I can't submit a sitemap XML file to the Google Search console, only a URL to a sitemap file. So I guess we'd have to merge the...

Re-opening this until Google has processed the sitemap and we can check results.

Yes, I manually resubmitted the index file, and that caused at least some parts of the sitemap files to be re-read immediately, revealing a namespace error message (see #2615).

Sorting by "Year of Publication" now makes PDFs show up for me!  That it doesn't show all of them might...

> In addition to only 5 of the "about 123" results showing up so far, I notice that their years are 2017, 2022, 2018, 2018, 2017, in that order, so...