Unfortunately our plan for disrupting the Inspector General market got leaked a bit early.
Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
101–110 of 131 posts
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#102Gotta wonder though: should StackOverflow.com rank high for "stack overflow"? After all, a "stack overflow" isn't necessarily related to programming questions. Yes, you can ask questions on StackOverflow.com about stack overflows, but that's missing the point. So if I have a domain name that's a thing, but my site has very little content related to that thing, should I rank high for queries about that thing?
Would a person struggling with a stack overflow actually google "stack overflow", though? Surely only a very fresh programmer would need to google it, and only if he/she knew what the concept was. But here's what an infinite recursion in a C program prints if I run it: Segmentation fault: 11 Well, that's C for you. If I try Ruby: test.rb:2: stack level too deep (SystemStackError) Ok, still not the same nomenclature.…
> Actually, an infinitely recursing function in Go never completes on my machine.
Maybe your function is tail-recursive? Try to use the return value from the recursive call in a nontrivial way, so that stack storage is necessary to store some local variable.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#103Something strange happened here. Google displays `stackoverflow.com` content in `doioig.gov` description. For example I can see `careers 2.0` in the description of `doioig.gov` that really doesn't have.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#104Well actually, "stack overflow" should ideally refer to the programming error. The site being talked about is "StackOverflow", and if that term is queried in any search engine, it should, and will provide the correct result.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#105Aaaaaaand, looks like it's back to normal. :)
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#106Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#107Conversation 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…
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#108Not sure if they fixed it since this post went live on HN but I am not seeing that.
For me SO is first with six "breakout" links below it, and then wikipedia entry about it.
But I don't allow javascript or cookies on google search which may get me a less filtered result.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you allocate your searches? Does the better quality of results justify the inconvenience of using several engines or is there a mechanism I'm unaware of?
Well, most of the time I already know the site best suited for my queries (e.g., SO for programming, amazon for shopping, wikipedia for facts, Wolfram Alpha for calculations etc), so DuckDuckGo's bang syntax really comes in handy. Google is astonishingly good at parsing vague queries, but otherwise DDG or Bing are pretty much OK.
I've tried using Bing several times in the past just to give them a fair chance, but every time came back to Google. They are really not at par in the search business. Actually no other company except Google got hold of the nerve of internet searching.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#110I love how this post points out a problem and fixes it at the same time.