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Re:Why use www? by stephen_g on Saturday January 30, 2016 @09:53PM (#11005019)
Even as a technical person, I hardly use URLs apart from sites I know well.

I've noticed more and more recently a trend of billboards and things that just say 'Search [name]' instead of putting their URL there.

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Re:Why use www? by djhn on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:23AM (#11005477)
I've seen it too. That's a lot of confidence in their SEO.
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Re:Why use www? by Consultant32452 on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:51AM (#11005534)
I bet the sign itself serves as search engine optimization. If everybody starts searching for "foo" and clicks on my site in the result set then a reasonable search engine might bump my site up higher for searches for "foo."
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Re:Why use www? by effie on Sunday January 31, 2016 @07:29PM (#11008865)
That's an interesting hypothesis. It makes sense for the company both as optimization of their web pages for search engines and as making good impression on customers.
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Re:Why use www? by codeka on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:45AM (#11005525)
Not really, if I were doing this, I'd buy ads for the search term so I can guarantee (within reason) I'm at the top.
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