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Even as a technical person, I hardly use URLs apart from sites I know well. I've noticed more and more recently a trend of billboards and things that just say
by stephen_g 11y ago
Even as a technical person, I hardly use URLs apart from sites I know well.
I've noticed more and more recently a trend of billboards and things that just say 'Search [name]' instead of putting their URL there.
- djhn 11y agoI've seen it too. That's a lot of confidence in their SEO.
- codeka 11y agoNot really, if I were doing this, I'd buy ads for the search term so I can guarantee (within reason) I'm at the top.
- Consultant32452 11y agoI bet the sign itself serves as search engine optimization. If everybody starts searching for "foo" and clicks on my site in the result set then a reasonable search engine might bump my site up higher for searches for "foo."
- effie 11y agoThat's an interesting hypothesis. It makes sense for the company both as optimization of their web pages for search engines and as making good impression on customers.