Google SPAMS itself!

You gotta love it!

http://www.google.com/dirhp

http://directory.google.com

Dave

 

It's google's skin for DMOZ. I'm missing the point?

 

I can't see "the point" either.. if there's a point in this.

 

"The point" is Google has 2 copies of their directory, one in a folder and the other as as a subdomain.

How many identical copies of your websites would you like to have in the index?

Dave

 

OHZ NO! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!

Where are the good posts these days?

 

What is spammy about it?

 

Is this the first time you noticed this? It's been that way for a while.

http://base.google.com/
http://www.google.com/base

http://www.google.com/sketchup/
http://sketchup.google.com/

http://www.google.com/earth/
http://earth.google.com/

etc.

alot of them are there but some will redirect:
http://www.google.com/scholar
http://scholar.google.com

-Michael

 

Try making an identical copy of your website's home page and put that into a directory.
You will know what spam about it.

Incase if anyone misses the point of this thread, if any of us do the same i.e. make two identical copies of same page on the same site, it will trigger a duplicate content penalty within no time, and you'll kiss your ranking good bye.

Nice point dave..

 

Fascinating.

 

Actually, no, that's not guaranteed to happen. You're more in danger of having duplicate pages on the same domain. Pages (articles for redistribution, 1000's of copies of the same news story, etc) get duplicated across domains often with no problems. I mean, yeah, it's not the best tactic, but the first references to a duplicate content penalty were about pages on a single site, usually massive doorway pages that all looked mostly identical.

<edit>Bah, nm, you actually said same site.

Google treats subdomains as individual sites.</edit>

-Michael

 

<Edit>Bah!! you edited your post....

 

Yes, I did edit it, because I was wrong about what I thought you were saying.

-Michael

 

It's google's own site. I would guess their own sites also get them selves a little 'boost' in their listings by default anyway.

 

I know for onething , i wont be doing that ... just too scared

 

That's a good reason to list all my new sites in Google directory.

 

they won't ban themself, but you can try yours! LOL

 

They should be punished for duplicate content. They should really make an example out of this. They should . . . oh well, I guess they are not in the masochistic mood. Forget about it.

 

If your site is old and trusted then having duplicate content isn't going to affect you one bit.

At worst all that will happen is google will decide on one page to show in the serps and will filter the other one. The filtered page will still be indexed but just not visible in the serps for certain queries.

At best you get an indented result in the serps and double your real estate.

 

And since when does anyone get banned for duplicate content

 

LOL! This is about as duplicate as it gets!

Look at it this way, should Google decide to "re-evaluate" the way they look at subdomains, they've hedged their bet.

Dave