Re: More domain name confusion?

[<pl...@pi...>]

Philipp K. Janert wrote:
 > I don't think that we need to worry too much about
 > Google page rank - except maybe for vanity reasons.
 >
 > If somebody is searching for "gnuplot", this person will find either 
gnuplot.info or gnuplot.sf.net, among
 > the top 10 entries, regardless. It's a VERY specialized
 > search term.
 >
 > Best,
 >
 >         Ph.
 >
 >

Hi Philipp,

you misread what I posted. Sure, anyone who searches for "gnuplot" will 
find it.

My point is about people finding gnuplot in the first place when needing 
plotting tool. When I needed such a tool a few years back I looked and 
did not find anything suitable. I did not find gnuplot.

This brings up another point: that gnuplot site content is not coming up 
in searches anyway. I was looking for such a tool for a long time and 
only found gnuplot by someone recommending it to me on a forum somewhere.

I certainly don't see PR as a "vanity" commodity but a PR7 is an asset 
that many would pay thousands to have. It seems foolish to dismiss it. 
It may make more sense to exploit it.

regards.



 >
 > On Tuesday 22 September 2009 07:39:01 am pl...@pi... wrote:
 >> Petr Mikulik wrote:
 >>>> Given that today there is SourceForge, the need to host community
 >>>> projects on individual's accounts seems less pressing. As I said 
before,
 >>>> it would make sense to me to have gnuplot.sourceforge.net be the
 >>>> "canonical" site (and have gnuplot.info point to it), and to make
 >>>> Clark's site at VT a clearly designated mirror.
 >>>>
 >>>> Votes? Opinions? Discussion?
 >>> - I think www.gnuplot.info looks more "professional" than 
gnuplot.sf.net.
 >>>
 >>> - The following link
 >>>         http://www.gnuplot.info/demo
 >>>   (notice the missing trailing slash) goes to:
 >>>     http://azog.bioinformatics.vt.edu:49280/demo/
 >>>   but not
 >>>     http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo
 >>>
 >>> - I think the VT site should have index.html with an immediate
 >>>   redirection to www.gnuplot.info.
 >> That would blow out any advantage of having a well ranked site with
 >> google. Once it gets a whiff of the redirection it will probably remove
 >> .info from it's listing and only refer to the target.
 >>
 >>> - It don't think the mirroring works correctly -- for example,
 >>>     http://www.gnuplot.info/download.html
 >>>   still announces 4.2.5 instead of 4.2.6:
 >>>     http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/download.html
 >>>   These problems are happening very often!
 >> That is presumably something that can easily be corrected. Mirroring is
 >> not a new idea.
 >>
 >> Clearly all efforts should be made to ensure an accurate mirroring.
 >>
 >> regards.
 >>
 >>> - What are proposals following from this discussion?
 >>>   A. Should www.gnuplot.info be an immediate redirect to sf.net?
 >>>      Would  www.gnuplot.info/demo/  still work correctly in that case?
 >>>
 >>>   B. Could the mirroring of www.gnuplot.info be finally fixed so 
that it
 >>>      really works in 24 h intervals (or faster)?
 >>>      Would a move to another server in the world help?
 >>>
 >>>   Any other possibility?
 >>>
 >>> ---
 >>> PM
 >>>
 >>>
 >