Searching for my domain in google

[sdani]

If I search for webmasterworld.com, I do get the home page's url as one and only result, with some description text. Same behaviour for searching for www.webmasterworld.com.

If I repeat the same with my site, I don't get any results for mydomain.com, but if I do a search for www.mydomain.com, I do get my home page's url and some description text.

Whats the explaination for this behaviour? I am guessing that someone linked to webmasterworld.com without www and google crawled it and treated it as a different page compared to www.webmasterworld.com

Thanks
SDani

[ThomasB]

sdani, that would be my explanation as well. I get the same results like you if I search for sites that are linked without "www." like you do.

[atlrus]

Well, I guess it's totally up to google. I have compared results for two of my websites: www.mydomain1.com and www.mydomain2.com and this is the final result:

www.mydomain1.com has PR5, and mydomain1.com has also PR5, and is treated by google as the same website - it has the same cache, number of links, although nobody links to my website using mydomain1.com

At the same time www.mydomain2.com is PR6, but mydomain2.com is PR0 with no backlinks, shows the same cache when I search for mydomain2.com, and I have linked to it from a few websites using mydomain2.com instead of www.mydomain2.com

So there should be more to it besides just back links.

[sdani]

don't know if it is good or bad, from from today my site is showing up in google for both "mydomain.com" and for "www.mydomain.com".

Earlier it used to show only for "www.mydomain.com"