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Another good reason why you should always use "example.com".
I'm surprised http://example.com is reserved by IANA.
It's reserved per RFC 2606: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
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"
#42Looks 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.
And here's why: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5411601/620239 . Forgot to change that first occurrence after pasting it in. "Oh, it works. I'm done."
It has been edited.
Here are the past revisions: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/5411601/revisions
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#43https://www.google.com/search?q=stackoverflow&aq=0&oq=stackover&aqs=chrome.0.0j5j57j0j62.3537&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=stack+overflow&oq=stack+overflow&gs_l=serp.3..0l4.4882.4882.0.5337.1.1.0.0.0.0.135.135.0j1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.5.psy-ab.gWmJt4vWzvg&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43148975,d.dmQ&fp=c1794afd088c3d78&biw=1440&bih=795 isn't that too long just for https:/…
Google results can dramatically change based on various parameters (location/time/browser/history/whatever-new-they-are-testing.) They presumably cram all this info into the search bar in case you want to repro the results.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#44Looks 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?
That sounds too easy. Also, if doioig.gov redirects to stackoverflow.com that just makes doioig.gov an alias for Stack Overflow. An alias shouldn't rank higher than the real thing.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
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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.
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.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#46https://www.google.com/search?q=stackoverflow&aq=0&oq=stackover&aqs=chrome.0.0j5j57j0j62.3537&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=stack+overflow&oq=stack+overflow&gs_l=serp.3..0l4.4882.4882.0.5337.1.1.0.0.0.0.135.135.0j1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.5.psy-ab.gWmJt4vWzvg&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43148975,d.dmQ&fp=c1794afd088c3d78&biw=1440&bih=795 isn't that too long just for https:/…
How about this? http://googl.com/#q=stack+overflow Source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-shortest-google...
That link sadly does not work for me who uses iGoogle (for now) on google.co.uk.
If it's a short URL you want, then http://bit.ly/YUJZLu. But you'll have to trust me when you click that as you've no idea where it'll take you to.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#47Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
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How about this? http://googl.com/#q=stack+overflow Source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-shortest-google...
That link sadly does not work for me who uses iGoogle (for now) on google.co.uk. If it's a short URL you want, then http://bit.ly/YUJZLu . But you'll have to trust me when you click that as you've no idea where it'll take you to.
Right click and copy link, paste into address bar, add a + to the end to see where it goes.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
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And here's why: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5411601/620239 . Forgot to change that first occurrence after pasting it in. "Oh, it works. I'm done."
That's brilliant, surprised that Google managed to rank them so highly because of it though!
.gov domains have a ton of link juice.
Re: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
#50The Wikipedia description of a stack overflow should probably be the best link and it ranks 5th.