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Completely OT: I find it interesting that this post and several other HN posts this week are hosted on Google Plus. I definitely would not have predicted that G
by sthatipamala 15y ago
Completely OT: I find it interesting that this post and several other HN posts this week are hosted on Google Plus. I definitely would not have predicted that G+ would encroach on the LiveJournal/Tumblr space.
- carbocation 15y agoOn a similar tangent to your OT post: we're getting to the point where seeing (plus.google.com) would be useful, since it conveys quite a different meaning to me from (google.com).
- nantes 15y agoIf you use Chrome, you might be interested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240646 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240646
- carbocation 15y agoActually, yes, that did the trick for me; thanks! (Though I still think it's a feature that everyone would appreciate, so if it could go into news.yc, that would be even better.)
- nantes 15y agoYou will hear no disagreement from me. Glad it worked for you.
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- dmazin 15y agoI've noticed this issue too; I've clicked a link a number of times now thinking it came from Google but it ended up merely being hosted at Plus.
- there 15y agohttp://arclanguage.org/item?id=14829 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=14829 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727178 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727178
- ignifero 15y agoYep, for many people g+ will be the long form twitter. Google should throw some calendar / archive and search in there
- smackfu 15y agoAnd I am impressed by how bad their URL structure is.
- ugh 15y agoIs that important?
- smackfu 15y agoGoogle thinks so, they use human readable permalinks on their official blogs: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-do-you-love.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-do-you-love.html
- jrockway 15y agoIsn't that just a side effect of using Blogger? I know why people demanded that feature for Blogger (imaginary effects on PageRank), but I imagine Google has a better algorithm than looking at text in the URL for content that they host. For example, they can find the post's title right in the database.
- dennisgorelik 15y agoYes, human-readable URLs are important. They are important as additional clue to users. They are important for SEO. But most likely it would take Google+ years before they implement it (like it was with Blogger).
- ugh 15y agoDoes Google really care about SEO? I very much doubt that users care about urls. (Yeah, you care, I care, sure, but nobody else.)
- dennisgorelik 15y agoIf you and I care about readable URLs why other users would not care? Everyone benefits from being able to read link that they see.
- Garbage 15y agoIts kind of problem for me, as G+ is blocked on my office network. ;) :(
- johnx123-up 15y agoOT: (FUD) All HN users will move to G+?