posting a question on coderanch

[Jasvir Rupana]

Hi,
what does <google>text</google> mean while posting a question on coderanch? does it help google to search the topic?? question would be in coderach database ,so google can not scam this database i think, so what does this means actually?

[Mike Simmons]

Well, try it and see. (Did you notice the "Preview" button?)

[ google ] foo [ /google ]

(without the spaces)

becomes

foo

[Jasvir Rupana]

yes i noticed that but what is it benefit actually doing so ?that is my question

[Joachim Rohde]

Readers don't have to type in the words manually at google and can click on the link instead?!

[Campbell Ritchie]

That sounds a likely explanation. Why not try it?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

 

Jasvir Rupana wrote:does it help google to search the topic?? question would be in coderach database ,so google can not scam this database i think, so what does this means actually?

Often it does. Google can't access our database, but it can access the forum posts - which come from the database.