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I'd propose the theory that a plausible explanation is that when the domain becomes unreachable/times out the search engine removes it from search results. Som
by rudyfink 17y ago
I'd propose the theory that a plausible explanation is that when the domain becomes unreachable/times out the search engine removes it from search results.
Someone might have made a design decision that says that domains that cannot be reached are not shown to customers in their results.
- cynicalkane 17y agoExcept that they're blocking searches for "wikileaks", not results for "wikileaks.org".
- rudyfink 17y agoI think all we know is that the search is failing to produce results. I also tried "collateralmurder" and "collateralmurder.com" and both fail to give any web results and indicate no warning banner. Both results do link to MSNBC's own stories which cite the links. You may very well be correct that the cause of the result was deliberate blocking. I was simply trying to suggest that their might be some automated error prevention heuristic at work that was potentially a cause of the same effect.
- conflux0 17y agoThe main Bing search works, if what your saying is correct then since MSNBC's search is just a modified version of Bing, Bing would also need to have the problem for there to be no fault on MSNBC's end.
- rudyfink 17y agoThat seems reasonable, though if MSNBC did tracking of people clicking through and their success rate it could still be true. I have no idea if that is common practice or not though. When I try out wikileaks I get the message "We are unable to display search results at this time. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience and try your request again." It doesn't describe what effect the error has though. It seems to just display results inside MSNBC and not results on the web at large.