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Well 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.
Gotta 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?
Your site should rank high for queries about that thing if people routinely search for that term while attempting to find your site.
Given that the Department of Interior has been forced to take the whole department (expect for vital services) offline multiple times, I would not be surprised if it were hacked. I am hoping this doesn't get in front of a judge anytime soon as it can have some consequence for people caught in the way. One such consequence, at one point a judge (curse his or her soul) decided since the DOI needed to be off the interne…
Given that the Department of Interior has been forced to take the whole department (expect for vital services) offline multiple times, I would not be surprised if it were hacked. I am hoping this doesn't get in front of a judge anytime soon as it can have some consequence for people caught in the way. One such consequence, at one point a judge (curse his or her soul) decided since the DOI needed to be off the interne…
Wait what? Why does the DOI disconnect from the internet on a regular basis? I feel like there's a backstory here.
Given that the Department of Interior has been forced to take the whole department (expect for vital services) offline multiple times, I would not be surprised if it were hacked. I am hoping this doesn't get in front of a judge anytime soon as it can have some consequence for people caught in the way. One such consequence, at one point a judge (curse his or her soul) decided since the DOI needed to be off the interne…
Wait what? Why does the DOI disconnect from the internet on a regular basis? I feel like there's a backstory here.
http://www.nextgov.com/technology-news/2008/05/interior-allo...
http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/2002/02/pressure-builds-...
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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.…
"only a very fresh programmer would need to google it" It's why this is a top story on Headquarters of Noobs. Not surprising. You mean Lenny Kravitz didn't write American Woman?
The preferred .gov page has thousands of google plus likes. This seems like a fascinating example of google plus' terrible impact on google search and perhaps google corp.
It ranks 1, 2, 3 and 4 for me - in the same time.
I think it there must not be much testing for the non-default settings. I much preferred the earlier interface where results from the same site were grouped, capped at a small number, and there was a "More results from this site" link.
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There's a qualitative difference somewhere there. I'd still prefer the river crossing to come top, but recognise that's just me.
In both of these cases you can get google to do what you prefer by typing "define" in front. "define ford" shows a dictionary definition of ford before all results, "define stack overflow" shows a link to wikipedia before all results.
Of course with the imprecise and constantly moving nature of language this is not easy.