Re: Google And WWW (Or Not)

"Antipodean Bucket Farmer" <anyone (AT) THE-DOMAIN-IN (DOT) SIG> wrote

I just tried a couple of Google commands with and
without the "www"

site:www.cardreport.com brings up 18,500 pages

site:cardreport.com brings up 18,700 pages

and

link:www.cardreport.com bring up 159 pages

link:cardreport.com "did not match any documents."

Anyone else seeing this? Why?

If 159 pages have links to www.cardreport.com and none have links to
cardreport.com, then what would you expect?

While web sites reachable by www.xxx.tld are also typically configured to be
reachable by xxx.tld, this is just a convention. These host names aren't
inherently equivalent. You could easily have no web site at all at xxx.tld,
or, if you're perverse enough, have it point to a different site from
www.xxx.tld. Therefore, Google (correctly) doesn't treat them as synonyms.

"Harlan Messinger" <h.messinger (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote

"Antipodean Bucket Farmer" <anyone (AT) THE-DOMAIN-IN (DOT) SIG> wrote in message
news:MPG.1bfb70852b7227a5989736 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz...
I just tried a couple of Google commands with and
without the "www"

site:www.cardreport.com brings up 18,500 pages

site:cardreport.com brings up 18,700 pages

and

link:www.cardreport.com bring up 159 pages

link:cardreport.com "did not match any documents."

Anyone else seeing this? Why?

If 159 pages have links to www.cardreport.com and none have links to
cardreport.com, then what would you expect?

While web sites reachable by www.xxx.tld are also typically configured to be
reachable by xxx.tld, this is just a convention. These host names aren't
inherently equivalent. You could easily have no web site at all at xxx.tld,
or, if you're perverse enough, have it point to a different site from
www.xxx.tld. Therefore, Google (correctly) doesn't treat them as synonyms.

Harlan..

Can you tell me how you found out how many links there were to that
webpage or where you just using 159 as an example that you picked
randomly?

"The Raider on a Rock" <TheRaideronaRock (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote

"Harlan Messinger" <h.messinger (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote

"Antipodean Bucket Farmer" <anyone (AT) THE-DOMAIN-IN (DOT) SIG> wrote in message
news:MPG.1bfb70852b7227a5989736 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz...
I just tried a couple of Google commands with and
without the "www"

site:www.cardreport.com brings up 18,500 pages

site:cardreport.com brings up 18,700 pages

and

link:www.cardreport.com bring up 159 pages

link:cardreport.com "did not match any documents."

Anyone else seeing this? Why?

If 159 pages have links to www.cardreport.com and none have links to
cardreport.com, then what would you expect?

While web sites reachable by www.xxx.tld are also typically configured
to be
reachable by xxx.tld, this is just a convention. These host names aren't
inherently equivalent. You could easily have no web site at all at
xxx.tld,
or, if you're perverse enough, have it point to a different site from
www.xxx.tld. Therefore, Google (correctly) doesn't treat them as
synonyms.

Harlan..

Can you tell me how you found out how many links there were to that
webpage or where you just using 159 as an example that you picked
randomly?

I wasn't the one who wrote that, only the one who copied it. However, the
original poster gave you the answer: search for link:www.cardreport.com.