On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:39:21 +0000, Jason Davies ucgajpd@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
maybe you all know about this but a google search just now gave me this page
http://www.mvsell.com/MV1/Project%20Files/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ wikipedia_glossary.html
Evil though this seemed on first sight, I think there may be a [fairly] innocent explanation. That site *does* carry a mirror of Wikipedia content, but not at that location - click "Encyclopedia" at the bottom; ok, so it's on a different domain, but maybe they just reorganised and didn't bother with redirects, so something's out of date somewhere? (Note also that *anything* after the /MV1/ will bring up that same page)
What were you searching *for* when you turned this up? Asking Google link:www.mvsell.com/MV1/Project%20Files/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia_glossary.html turned up nothing linking to such an address, so I don't quite understand why Google would think it existed.
What were you searching *for* when you turned this up? Asking Google link:www.mvsell.com/MV1/Project%20Files/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ wikipedia_glossary.html turned up nothing linking to such an address, so I don't quite understand why Google would think it existed.
it was for 'meta wiki how do I make a user a sysop' and I think I used teoma.com rather than google, now I think about it.
...but maybe they just reorganised and didn't bother with redirects, so something's out of date somewhere? (Note also that *anything* after the /MV1/ will bring up that same page)
That may be their 404 page for a link that used to exist. When looking at the logs for my personal homepage, I get hundreds of search engine hits that send internet users to pages that existed on my site like 3 or 4 years ago, and have been gone ever since. Some of these search engines fixate on a popular page (I think Lycos in Denmark gets a lot of requests for "Sixpence mp3 download" or something) and don't expire their indexes to them or bother to re-crawl.
No, I don't host illegal mp3 downloads, those are 3 words that were on the page that the search engine aggregated to a hit.
So I can imagine that even after the Google Dance (TM) that you're going to have the occasional 404. And if this particular host uses 404 errors to make money, then .... Why didn't I think to do that? Talk to y'all later, after I write some clever html for Danish Lycos users....
--NDB
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