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Re:Help Google just nerfed us out of the blue by jlarocco on Thursday May 17, 2012 @04:59PM (#3989059)
"www" might be a very special case, but there are lots of times where "this.domain.com" is completely unrelated to "that.domain.com".

Many sites, for example give users their own "name.whatever.com" subdomain. In those cases treating the sites as the same doesn't make any sense.

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Re:Help Google just nerfed us out of the blue by superchink on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:30PM (#3989460)
True, but I think that is just the special case being asked about. Would it make sense to have an exception for “www”?
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Re:Help Google just nerfed us out of the blue by robomartin on Monday May 21, 2012 @10:30AM (#4002989)
That's true, but the www/no-www/http/https cases are very likely to refer to exactly the same site. Besides, Google's algos, through crawling, should know that it is the same site. It seems unfair to punish the site for this.
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