From: "Dan Morgan" <DMorgan@nas.edu>
To: webmaster@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <85256A18.006A6B9F.00@smtpmta.nas.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:22:04 -0500
Subject: Re: WEB versus WWW on Google
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The incorrect web.mit.edu URLs have disappeared from Google's search results,
but the correct www.mit.edu URLs still have not reappeared in their place.  It's
been a month since they told you the problem was "fixed".  Is it still just
"persisting for a while"?  Or could there still be a problem?

Thanks,

     Daniel


Alex Rolfe <arolfe@MIT.EDU> on 02/23/2001 12:39:20 AM

Please respond to webmaster@MIT.EDU

To:   Dan Morgan@NAS
cc:
Subject:  Re: WEB versus WWW on Google


Several other people noticed that same thing.  After several emails and
phone calls back and forth to Google, we're told that the problem has
been fixed on their end.  However, incorrect search results may persist
for a while.  Thanks for pointing this out.


--------
Alex Rolfe
for the SIPB Webmasters

 > Have you noticed that most URLs that start "http://www.mit.edu/..." are now
 > being indexed incorrectly by Google as "http://web.mit.edu/..."?  For exampl
    e, I
 > just searched for "SIPB" and got the incorrect result
 > "http://web.mit.edu/sipb/sipb.html".
 >
 > This problem is quite recent.  I'm guessing that it's Google's problem, not
 > MIT's, but I thought I'd mention it to you in case that's wrong, and also wi
    th
 > the idea that you may have better luck than I will at getting Google to fix
    the
 > problem.
 >
 > Thanks.  And if you knew this already and are already working on a solution,
 > sorry to bother you.
 >
 >      Dan
 >
 >