Google now treats the www and non-www versions as the same

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August 30th, 2006 - Filed under Internet Marketing & SEO, Google by Cristian Mezei
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Yes, that’s right .. And it’s treating my URLs like that without an input from me.. I just found out today, about this feature.

Try :

link:http://dmoz.org and link:http://www.dmoz.org
link:http://xperts.ro and link:http://www.xperts.ro
link:http://v7n.com and link:http://www.v7n.com

All results are the same for the www and non-www search.

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7 Comments so far

Bill said:
August 31st, 2006

I don’t know if they’ve gotten around to everyone, but I’m still seeing a difference here:

link:http://nytimes.com - 10,900

and

link:http://www.nytimes.com - 196,000

sandossu said:
August 31st, 2006

That`s great, i`m really glad they did this. It was really wrong.
But i am thinking at a fact, what if i make a website on the ‘www’ subdomain ?

August 31st, 2006

Bill, maybe there’s a spreading pattern, that’s not finished yet. I also told Jen (on the Webmasterradio chatroom), that I think, the option to treat www the same as the non-www version, is ON by default, in everyone’s sitemaps account (or if someone doesn’t have a sitemaps account, it’s still ON by default) and the OFF state (treat www as one entity, and non-www as another), is the one who’s activated by the user’s choice.

Sandossu, you have that option in your sitemaps account. To disable or enable the feature.

Mong said:
August 31st, 2006

Isn’t it unnecessary change ?

Jonathan said:
September 2nd, 2006

I think it’s a good update. This way webmasters don’t *have* to enforce www or non-www for users. I do notice that google.com does a www-enforce which pushes uses to www.google.com anyway.

Andrei said:
September 5th, 2006

It`s a good update. It wasn`t fair to see two different sites with www and without it. I noticed that you can select a prefered domain, from your sitemaps account.

Azhar said:
November 18th, 2006

I dont think its the same thing,

What abou the site:http://dmoz.org and site:http://www.dmoz.org ; ther are not same at all.

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