[Gllug] OT: domain name appears on google by magic!

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:35:22PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:06:47PM +0100, Ben wrote:
<snip>
> 
> Try typing any domain name that hosts a webserver: slashdot.org,
> www.microsot.com, anything you like.  You'll get a single result that is
> the main index page.  This isn't because your site has been indexed,
> it's because if a search term looks like the name of a website, it'll
> check for that first before searching its database.

Ah, I see. Seems only google do this as other search engines (just
tried altavista + alltheweb) don't pick it up.

Thanks Bruce,

Ben
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