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Conversation from three days ago at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/169405/google-indexing-issue-for-keyword-stackoverflow http://meta.stackoverflow.com
by mherdeg 14y ago
Conversation from three days ago at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/169405/google-indexing-issue-for-keyword-stackoverflow http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/169405/google-indexi... suggests that the best hypothesis is that at some point in the past, www.doioig.gov was compromised and maybe redirected to StackOverflow.
(This hypothesis is supported by a Google cache of doioig.gov showing the message "Due to security concerns, our website will be unavailable until transition to the Department of the Interior web domain occurs. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and are working to speed up the transition. The following contact information is provided to assist you.")
- crgt 14y agoEven if it had been redirected, why would it outrank the actual site?
- Sujan 14y agoGoogle obviously puts high trust in this domain as it has many high trust links, typical for .gov domains. In this case this seems to have been enough for the algo to assume, that doioig.gov is the more important domain and should replace StackOverflow.
- mherdeg 14y ago(Actually the explanation at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5311430 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5311430 looks a lot better. I do wonder what's up with the DoI's recent "security concerns").
- protomyth 14y agoThey have a rather long history of security concerns. Many times ending up in front of a judge.
- manojlds 14y agoAlso, here : http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31827/stack-overflow-is-www-doioig-gov-if-not-then-i-could-be-infected http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31827/stack-over...