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Like some sort of a uniform resource locator?

by jayzalowitz 12y ago

askmike 12y ago
definitely, though that doesn't mean it is interesting for humans (Google is a search engine for humans).
- graeme 12y ago
  Do you, as a human, find the site to be uninteresting? It's very clear to me, and obviously useful. If a number calls me, I can look it up. If anyone else has received calls, I may get information. I've used services like this to find out that certain numbers were spam, others were from my bank, etc. It makes sense to have each number to be a page. How else would you design it? This is of some concern to me as a small webmaster. I have a site with a few pages like this: http://lsathacks.com/explanations/lsat-preptest-73/logical-reasoning-1/q-4/ http://lsathacks.com/explanations/lsat-preptest-73/logical-r... Only the test number, section number and question number change. And of course the text changes completely too, since each page explains a different question. But from headings, the page looks very similar to others. To someone studying for the LSAT, that page is immensely meaningful, and they'll know the difference between 72 and 64 in the context of the LSAT. Just like a human interested in phone number 123-456-7890 will know the difference between that number and 111-456-7890 even though the two numbers may look similar to a machine.
  - graeme 12y ago
    Oops. I can't edit. For posterity, I meant to say I have a few thousand pages like the one I linked to. Right now Google has correctly figured out they're useful to list separately. But this whocalledus precedent worries me that someday Google might decide that my pages aren't "different enough" even though there's no better way to arrange them and they were designed for humans.
  - mchahn 12y ago
    > It makes sense to have each number to be a page. How else would you design it? I don't see how it makes any sense to waste an entire page for each number. A simple scrolling list, maybe with numbers that can expand to show more info.
    - dlubarov 12y ago
      I would think 99% of visitors are interested in a single number. Why show them a list of numbers?

Like some sort of a uniform resource locator?

askmike 12y ago

definitely, though that doesn't mean it is interesting for humans (Google is a search engine for humans).

graeme 12y ago
Do you, as a human, find the site to be uninteresting? It's very clear to me, and obviously useful. If a number calls me, I can look it up. If anyone else has received calls, I may get information. I've used services like this to find out that certain numbers were spam, others were from my bank, etc. It makes sense to have each number to be a page. How else would you design it? This is of some concern to me as a small webmaster. I have a site with a few pages like this: http://lsathacks.com/explanations/lsat-preptest-73/logical-reasoning-1/q-4/ http://lsathacks.com/explanations/lsat-preptest-73/logical-r... Only the test number, section number and question number change. And of course the text changes completely too, since each page explains a different question. But from headings, the page looks very similar to others. To someone studying for the LSAT, that page is immensely meaningful, and they'll know the difference between 72 and 64 in the context of the LSAT. Just like a human interested in phone number 123-456-7890 will know the difference between that number and 111-456-7890 even though the two numbers may look similar to a machine.
- graeme 12y ago
  Oops. I can't edit. For posterity, I meant to say I have a few thousand pages like the one I linked to. Right now Google has correctly figured out they're useful to list separately. But this whocalledus precedent worries me that someday Google might decide that my pages aren't "different enough" even though there's no better way to arrange them and they were designed for humans.
- mchahn 12y ago
  > It makes sense to have each number to be a page. How else would you design it? I don't see how it makes any sense to waste an entire page for each number. A simple scrolling list, maybe with numbers that can expand to show more info.
  - dlubarov 12y ago
    I would think 99% of visitors are interested in a single number. Why show them a list of numbers?