{"id":2383,"date":"2015-03-16T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2015-03-16T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:34:39","slug":"googles-bad-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/googles-bad-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Bad Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently\u00a0we wrote a post on how\u00a0<a title=\"Google\u2019s Bad Instructions for Upgrading Zen Cart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/11\/googles-bad-instructions-for-upgrading-zen-cart\/\">Google was placing bad instruction for upgrading Zen Cart<\/a>\u00a0directly in the search results. We have run across another example of where Google isn&#8217;t providing a good answer. If you do a search for &#8220;Magento PHP 5.5&#8221; currently you get the following answer above the normal search results:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2395 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/magento-php-5-5-google-answer.png\" alt=\"This link says that Magento is compatible with PHP 5.2.13 - 5.3.24, but when you run the PHP script to check server requirements, it says that is okay to run on 5.4 and even 5.5. But I've seen some issues with 5.4 over the internet.Aug 23, 2013\" width=\"500\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/magento-php-5-5-google-answer.png 500w, https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/magento-php-5-5-google-answer-300x92.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Zen Cart upgrade example, the information isn&#8217;t wrong, it just out of date. If you following the link referenced in that answer\u00a0you are taken to the <a href=\"http:\/\/magento.com\/resources\/system-requirements\">Magento System Requirements page<\/a>\u00a0which now\u00a0lists\u00a0the latest version of Magento, 1.9.1, as being compatible\u00a0PHP 5.4 and 5.5 (as we mentioned in a <a title=\"What to Watch For When Upgrading to Magento 1.9.1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/what-to-watch-for-when-upgrading-to-magento-1-9-1\/\">previous post<\/a>, as of Magento 1.9.1 the bare minimum it will allow being run on is 5.3.0).<\/p>\n<p>The Magento System Requirements page was the first result when we did the search:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2396 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/magento-php-5-5-google-first-result.png\" alt=\"magento-php-5-5-google-first-result\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/magento-php-5-5-google-first-result.png 500w, https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/magento-php-5-5-google-first-result-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So excluding a direct answer would have produced a better result in this case (by comparison the page Google took their answer from was ranked 7th).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently\u00a0we wrote a post on how\u00a0Google was placing bad instruction for upgrading Zen Cart\u00a0directly in the search results. We have run across another example of where Google isn&#8217;t providing a good answer. If you do a search for &#8220;Magento PHP 5.5&#8221; currently you get the following answer above the normal search results: Unlike the Zen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/googles-bad-answers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google&#8217;s Bad Answers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-magento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}