Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
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Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#2What doesn't make sense is why it's ranked beneath a Government site? www.doioig.gov
Plus, the content of the homepage doesn't even contain anything about Stack Overflow.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#3Conversation from three days ago at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/169405/google-indexi... suggests that the best hypothesis is that at some point in the past, www.doioig.gov was compromised and maybe redirected to StackOverflow.
(This hypothesis is supported by a Google cache of doioig.gov showing the message "Due to security concerns, our website will be unavailable until transition to the Department of the Interior web domain occurs. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and are working to speed up the transition. The following contact information is provided to assist you.")
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#4What doesn't make sense is why it's ranked beneath a Government site? www.doioig.gov Plus, the content of the homepage doesn't even contain anything about Stack Overflow.
Government sites may get a higher pagerank because of the .gov extension
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#5Conversation from three days ago at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/169405/google-indexi... suggests that the best hypothesis is that at some point in the past, www.doioig.gov was compromised and maybe redirected to StackOverflow. (This hypothesis is supported by a Google cache of doioig.gov showing the message "Due to security concerns, our website will be unavailable until transition to the Department of th…
Even if it had been redirected, why would it outrank the actual site?
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#6Conversation from three days ago at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/169405/google-indexi... suggests that the best hypothesis is that at some point in the past, www.doioig.gov was compromised and maybe redirected to StackOverflow. (This hypothesis is supported by a Google cache of doioig.gov showing the message "Due to security concerns, our website will be unavailable until transition to the Department of th…
Even if it had been redirected, why would it outrank the actual site?
Google obviously puts high trust in this domain as it has many high trust links, typical for .gov domains. In this case this seems to have been enough for the algo to assume, that doioig.gov is the more important domain and should replace StackOverflow.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#7I'm suspiciously seeing, "2,643 people +1'd this."
While I would be excited to see such enthusiasm relating to a government property, this doesn't smell kosher.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#8Looks like it's a cut/paste error. If you do wget www.doioig.gov, this is the page you get. Notice the meta refresh that points to stackoverflow.com.
window.location.href = "http://www.doi.gov/oig/index.cfm"
Page Redirection
If you are not redirected automatically, please click the link to continue to the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#9Google's algorithm has gotten so big and so complicated over the years, that there are so many cracks and special cases that can cause sites to disappear from or be poorly ranked in search results, unless you're lucky enough to be huge in the tech scene or post here and get your comment seen by a Googler (as I have on occasion).
Any Googlers reading this, I'm looking into rebuttals of false DMCA requests being ignored by Google for months...
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#10I'm suspiciously seeing, "2,643 people +1'd this." While I would be excited to see such enthusiasm relating to a government property, this doesn't smell kosher.
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