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It's a strange irony that Google, the driving force behind the invention of SEO, often fail to bother with it themselves, even on extremely high-profile product

by seldo 15y ago

It's a strange irony that Google, the driving force behind the invention of SEO, often fail to bother with it themselves, even on extremely high-profile products. As noted, Google Profiles have meaningless, unguessable URLs: https://plus.google.com/112349855959838705650 https://plus.google.com/112349855959838705650 Items in the Chrome app store are similarly opaque: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aidgmjkfmbhldhnhkopojimkhhhcpenl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aidgmjkfmbhldhnhko... (As are all Chrome extensions:) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ddngkjbldiejbheifcmnfmmfiniimbbg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ddngkjbldiejbheifc... YouTube videos have no title information at all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQhfYA2cH8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQhfYA2cH8 Orkut (a low blow I realize): http://www.orkut.com/Main#Profile?uid=16458042622225437726 http://www.orkut.com/Main#Profile?uid=16458042622225437726 News topics: http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&ncl=djUP_xBOC0jGztMr_kwVTwLB6qkjM&topic=h http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&... It confuses me.

true_religion 15y ago
It's not really surprising that Google doesn't care about SEO---after all they are the search engine.
mtkd 15y ago
I've not seen any evidence keyword URLs give any SEO benefit. If they once did, it doesn't appear to be the case now.
vijaydev 15y ago
About the chrome extension urls, the source they use to generate those hashes and some interesting trivia here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1882981/google-chrome-alphanumeric-hashes-to-identify-extensions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1882981/google-chrome-alp...
jaredmck 15y ago
It's like google wants to remind you what search was like prior to their participation. Webmaster forums are particularly funny example of this style of design which is almost aggressively search-unfriendly.

by seldo 15y ago

true_religion 15y ago

It's not really surprising that Google doesn't care about SEO---after all they are the search engine.

mtkd 15y ago

I've not seen any evidence keyword URLs give any SEO benefit. If they once did, it doesn't appear to be the case now.

vijaydev 15y ago

About the chrome extension urls, the source they use to generate those hashes and some interesting trivia here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1882981/google-chrome-alphanumeric-hashes-to-identify-extensions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1882981/google-chrome-alp...

jaredmck 15y ago

It's like google wants to remind you what search was like prior to their participation. Webmaster forums are particularly funny example of this style of design which is almost aggressively search-unfriendly.