May be someone fixed something, but I'm seeing stackoverflow as the top result now for both with or without inverted commas.
Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
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#112Also ranking highly: Bullshit sites that simply scrape StackOverflow and re-present its content in a tiny column surrounded by ads. And of course Google was supposed to add (or restore?) the means to block sites from search results, but month after month they still don't do it.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#113May be someone fixed something , but I'm seeing stackoverflow as the top result now for both with or without inverted commas.
Yep, it's ranked #1 for me too, but this could be linked to regional and/or personal data (I'm not based in US).
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#114Stack Overflow ranks #1 for Bing Search for "Stack Overflow".
The other day I used Bing to search for "C++14 ...", because Google doesn't recognize it as a search term. Though it does understand C++11.
Granted I didn't get many worthwhile hits, but I did get some. Google simply provided me with the results of "C++ 14", which is pretty useless.
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#115Gotta 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.…
"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?
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#116Google'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 ignore…
Agreed. A hacker put some malicious code on one of my sites over a year ago and it was quickly buried in search results after ranking 1-3 on page one for years. I fixed it, changed hosts, notified Google and have tried everything else I can think of and it's still nowhere to be seen - even though it ranks near the top of both Yahoo and Bing.
If a Googler sees this, the site is http://starbuckslocations.com - please look into it!
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. And DuckDuckGo. And Google. Why give all your searches to one search engine and one company? Depending on what you're searching for, Google doesn't always provide the best results.
Google almost universally provides the best results if you are actually searching for something. Compare the results for queries like "that movie where a computer plays tic tac toe" A very reasonable search if you forget what the name of War Games is, but bing fails it utterly and completely; not a single mention of War Games until the second results page, and the wikipedia page for it doesn't appear until the third.…
> Suppose I am looking for "that movie with a button". Yup, google get's it, "The Box". Bing thinks I am thinking of Benjamin Button, which was google's second suggestion
Hm. There is no one google. In the google that I see, for that search, it's the other way around: "Benjamin Button" is #1, and "The Box" is #2 (both on IMDB).
Life before search engines was different and it's easy to be blasé. IMHO, getting the one that you are vaguely thinking of anywhere in the top 5 is a great and amazing technical feat. And also good enough to jog your memory, so #1 or #2 makes no difference.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#118Looks 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.
Why would this rank them so high though? Does the googlebot actually follow the http-equiv="refresh". If so, would changing http://stackoverflow.com to say http://dell.com make them rank #1 for searching for dell as well?
There is no rational reason. I said as much and got downvoted by someone.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Apparently Go allocates the stack as a heap structure, as was pointed out in another comment: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4226964/how-come-go-doesn...
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#120Not any more...