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Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names

posted by martyb on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:58AM   
from the please-stop-"helping" dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Google Chrome developers advised they would wait until Fall or Spring to disclose how they would "kill" URLs, but it appears the endeavor has already begun: users have found that the latest build, Chrome 69, hides the "WWW" and "M" subdomains in the address bar. Bleeping Computer has instructions on how to restore what Google insists is "trivial."

Source: https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/09/09/google_slammed_for_chrome_change_that_strips_out_www_from_domains/

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• www.soylentnews.org doesn't redirect to soylentnew www.soylentnews.org doesn't redirect to soylentnew (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:20PM (2 children)

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:20PM (#734308) Homepage Journal

  -s.org

  Two web pages with the same content cause both to rank worse in search than would just one page

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• Re:www.soylentnews.org doesn't redirect to soylent Re:www.soylentnews.org doesn't redirect to soylent (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:40PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:40PM (#734516)

  Yes it does.
  dig www.soylentnews.org
  
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;www.soylentnews.org.           IN      A
  
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  www.soylentnews.org.    3600    IN      CNAME   soylentnews.org.
  soylentnews.org.        43      IN      A       23.239.29.31

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  • No. No It Doesn't. (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday September 14 2018, @01:43AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday September 14 2018, @01:43AM (#734635) Homepage Journal

    Redirect permanent / https://soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org]
    ^-- You need to put this in the www.sn's virtual host config.

    That the two hostnames have the same IP address is not an HTTP redirect. As long as it stays that way, SN will be suffering the Duplicate Content Penalty.

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