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

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:06:47PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm sure someone will be able to put this one to bed
> very quickly.
> 
> I registered a domain, put some private stuff on the
> web server it points to and left it.
> 
> Now when I go to google it shows up if I search for
> mydomain where the dns record is www.mydomain.com
> It's not a real word so it's the only result, BTW.
> 
> I'd expect to see this appear if I'd:
> 
> 1. Added the url to google's list of urls
> 2. Someone else who already has an indexed page
> has added a link to my page on their page (!).
> 3. The company with whom I registered my domain
> has a "relationship" with google and has made
> some of my info available to google.

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.


-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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