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Off topic, but every time I see the domain in parentheses on links from pubmed, it shows up as nih.gov. I know that the NIH/NLM runs pubmed, but I feel like I g
by epmaybe 7y ago
Off topic, but every time I see the domain in parentheses on links from pubmed, it shows up as nih.gov. I know that the NIH/NLM runs pubmed, but I feel like I get misled thinking that this is an official NIH publication before I click on the link.
- jessriedel 7y agoThe important thing is that the NIH domain hosts the PubMed website, not that the NIH runs PubMed from an administrative standpoint. The domain in parentheses tells you the URL domain for the link, nothing more, and shouldn't be interpreted as endorsement. It would be infeasible for HN to automatically determine who the authoring/endorsing institution is.
- epmaybe 7y agoI know, I guess my brain has been trained to think of it as an endorsement even though I can infer that it likely isn't.