Re: More domain name confusion?

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

Thanks to Allin for pulling some information 
together. I think this is really useful. Some
comments below (after a snip).


[snip]
>
> 1. Clearly, www.gnuplot.info has much more google-recognition than
> gnuplot.sf.net.
>
> 2. Gnuplot (even in the form www.gnuplot.info) is not showing up
> as it "should" for some relevant google searches.
>
> What follows?
>
> (1) I would say, if we're interested in proselytizing (though, as
> we all know, it makes none of us any money!), we should amend the
> gnuplot home page (on whatever site[s] it subsists) to explicitly
> mention the facts that gnuplot is free (as in free beer, though
> not exactly in the Richard Stallman sense) and open source. And we
> should also include the term "graphing".

And: "data analysis" and "visualization" and ...?

>
> (2) This is more speculative, but IMO google page rank is quite
> dynamic, not necessarily strongly bound by history.  That is, I
> think that _if_ the gnuplot developers (and I don't count myself
> as one, I'm just an interested spectator) were to choose to make
> gnuplot.sf.net the canonical site, then the ranking would fairly
> quickly adjust to favour gnuplot.sf.net.

I think this is true. One thing that seems to affect
Google is the way a page changes. I have seen
static pages drop from way on high to nowhere at
all. On the other hand, I have noticed that pages
that have changed tend to come up higher (and
Google tends to pick up changes w/in a few days).