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Google Domain Search Not Helpful

Doesn't help people trying to find a site ...

         

internetheaven

8:07 pm on Mar 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Currently on Yahoo if you type in a domain it searches for it the same way it would regular search results. If you search for a domain on Google 9 times out of 10 you won't get anywhere. On my site, if you don't type www.example.com it will say the site doesn't exist. most people when searching for my site type example.com which Google says does not exist. Things get worse when people are looking for one of my other sites:

www.other-example.com

because they might accidentaly type in otherexample.com without the hyphen which, again, Google says does not exist. At this point even the 'Click the link to see if it does exist' doesn't help as that takes them to a totallly different site. Why can't Google return regular search results for domain searches so that spelling errors, punctuation, and subdomains don't end up with searchers being told the site does not exist?

Does anyone else agree with me that returning search results instead of saying the domain doesn't exist is better? Altavista do the same and Alltheweb changed a couple of months ago. I think the Yahoo way is much better, anyone disagree?