Add url on google

Strange goings one

[xcandyman]

Usually when I want to add an url to google I just do a search on google with the words "add url". The reason I do this is because I find it easier and faster than typing: "google.com/addurl.html" in the address bar.

Today though, google's add url page cannot be found under the search term add url or anything like that. I even tried add url to google, add site to google etc and it didn't appear anywhere.

The now number one spot is Yahoo! which is a unrecognized file format.

I also tried "addurl site:google.com" and number one spot is the japanese addurl page. Could the google.com/addurl.html page be penalized for dupe content?

Looks like back to typing "google.com/addurl.html" in the address bar for me.

Google fix your problems.

[dirkz]

From a SEO point of view, google.com/addurl.html
is not very optimized for "add url" (the phrase is not even mentioned).

I would have guessed that the yahoo page has more occurences, but "add" is not even on the page!

So I guess there are just more people linking to the yahoo page with "add url" than to the google one :)

Looks strange though.

[takagi]

Both

info:www.google.com/addurl.html

and

cache:www.google.com/addurl.html

give an error. Maybe the site was down when the spider wanted to crawl it. Or they have a problem with the IP address.

[JonR28]

Would google crawl itself? That sounds kinda dirty to me... lol

[dirkz]

After yahoo buying overture they crawl like this:

if (url.contains("google")) {
pr = 10;
break;
}
else if (url.contains("yahoo")) {
pr -= 5;
break;
}

Seems like this new algo has not yet been used for the current results.

:)

[Josefu]

silly question, but is this algo available for perusal? I've seen 'if you look at the algo' many times throught these forums.

Thanks,

Josefu.

[storevalley]

if (url.contains("google")) {
pr = 10;
break;
}

Hmmmm ... sounds like google.domain.com could be a handy place to start writing some articles ;)

[mil2k]

but is this algo available for perusal? I've seen 'if you look at the algo' many times throught these forums.

lol :) No the algo is not available for perusal. Many of us get carried away and use that term.

[Josefu]

hee, making me run after the bait... thanks for the exercise : )