http://www.googlesyndication.com/

What is it for?

[g1smd]

I found this site the other day: [googlesyndication.com...]

What is it for? Who runs it? I assume Google do. But why?

[Brett_Tabke]

;)

[google.com...]

[jeremy goodrich]

They've got the mirror of Google.com there as a 'placeholder' so it doesn't simply redirect, perhaps.

Other than that, the spider for their content targeted ads contains the 'googlesyndication' url, so that people can distinguish between that & regular adwords from Google.com

Perhaps also, they are 'extending' their brand, to create more mind share among webmasters & marketers? :)

[Clark]

backlinks to that page FWIW

http://www.netahoy.org/mt/archives/000238.htm

http://chaoszone.blogspot.com/2003_03_01_chaoszone_archive.html

[DerekH]

jeremy goodrich wrote
>They've got the mirror of Google.com there as a 'placeholder'

Google's guidelines state
"Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content"

Hmm...
DerekH