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"name" is also in the URL of namecheap. It is very hard to counter legit sites with the exact keyword match in their URL, even if you have many more quality lin
by gabaix 14y ago
"name" is also in the URL of namecheap. It is very hard to counter legit sites with the exact keyword match in their URL, even if you have many more quality links going to you.
Try "hosting" and you'll see what I am talking about.
- nfriedly 14y agoNot knocking your point, but https://www.google.com/search?q=domain+registration&pws=0 https://www.google.com/search?q=domain+registration&pws=... also shows NameCheap above Go Daddy
- TillE 14y agoSee how it bolds "domain names", though? Google is now notorious for this; it will search for what it thinks you meant, rather than exactly what you typed. It's silently adding "name" to your query for you.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoIt's quite handy though, it looks for close synonyms where it expects they will return superior results. For instance, if I search for "how to learn Castillian", it might replace that with Spanish since that also describes what I'm looking for and will get more results.
- jrockway 14y agoIt "might", but in this case, it gives you exactly what you want.
- keeperofdakeys 14y agoAs soon as you try searching anything related to programming or computing, where you need exact matches, you start to loathe it (of course, there is always verbatim mode). I've also had a case where it included the antonym of one of my search terms in its "auto terms". Of course, since this is google, all of these associations are probably auto-generated at some level. So weeding out bugs would probably be rather hard.
- nfriedly 14y agoThat's a good point, although https://www.google.com/search?q=%22domain+registration%22&pws=0 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22domain+registration%22... still has NameCheep first and "name" is no longer bold.
- jsprinkles 14y agoFor me it is only doing that in the sponsored ads, not the actual results. Citation required.
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- yrral 14y agoGoogle has a "verbatim" mode that does not do this. http://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=11&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=domain+registration#q=domain+registration&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=li:1&sa=X&ei=ztOST9OVAZSK8QTKsYT5Aw&ved=0CBIQpwUoBw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=9725fbeacdcad119 http://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=11&source... Still, namecheap is above godaddy