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Obama's new Web site for the transition
- profgubler 18y agoI did not vote for Barack Obama, but I must say that this website is a great move. I pray that it is more than lip service and that they will use it to truly listen to all sides and respond in detail to the country on decisions they are making.
- jhancock 18y agoThe really cool thing is http://change.gov http://change.gov works too and doesn't redirect to http://www.change.gov http://www.change.gov. See, progressive leadership already ;)
- dawie 18y agoThey both redirect to the same page... HN just didn't realize that it's the same page.
- lanaer 18y agoNo, they both _display_ the same page. Some sites will redirect either from the core domain to www., or vice-versa. Personally, I’m a fan of redirecting www to the root domain, but anyway.
- truebosko 18y agoFrom an SEO stand point, this is a no no, heh :)
- timr 18y agoSuperstition. There are many "SEO experts" who swear that the opposite is true (which goes to show you the value of "SEO experts," but I digress.) Seriously...this is web-crawler 101. I think the search engines have it covered.
- nickb 18y agoDuplicate pages are bad. They cause a split in pagerank. Discount advice of anyone who tells you otherwise. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/duplicate-content-question/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/duplicate-content-question/
- timr 18y agoYes, duplicate pages are generally bad, but nobody has demonstrated that having a www domain results in duplicate pages. It's a superstition. I've the done tests myself, and never found a difference. The link you've provided suggests much the same thing -- as long as you're being reasonable in your use of subdomains, you're not going to be penalized by the search engines.
- jhancock 18y agoI have a feeling the page rank of change.gov will be just fine, even if some googler has to hard code it.
- unalone 18y agoI doubt they'll need hard code. This is a big new thing. I'm sure there'll be hella linking to this from around the Internet. I posted the URL on Tumblr a few hours ago and already had 7 people reblog the link. That's one isolated instance. This'll be passed on quickly.
- peregrine 18y agoThey really got to the ground running eh?
- thomasmallen 18y agoThis website has absolutely no business on the .gov TLD. "Campaign stories" clearly are a partisan concern, and as such belong on a .org.
- tptacek 18y agoThe country elected a Democrat, and a strong critic of the Bush administration. We now have a Democratic administration. Start getting used to it. It's unlawful to campaign from the White House (and thus I guess maybe from a .gov), but the campaign's over.
- blader 18y agoThe campaign's over buddy - transitioning the office of the Presidency is a national concern, not a partisan one.