A Fan Call for HTTP
Well, this appeared on my brother’s blog today. Unfortunately, he was very poor in his post as to explain what “this” is all about.
What is it about? Well, apparently, if you enter a botched up URL (http//www.something.com) on your web browser, be it even Mozilla or Firefox, it will shortly lead you to Microsoft’s page.
Do not attempt to adjust your browser! This is not a problem with it but with Google. Why Google? Good question. Apparently, if Firefox or Mozilla can not locate the address you were addressing then it just performs a quick “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google and takes you there. Most fucked-uply, because of Google’s page ranking system, Microsoft is the number one on the list and the W3 Consortium is only second.
What should we do? You should post things about HTTP, with links attached, that has nothing to do with Microsoft. Do it now, right now! Go to message boards, forums, blogs, comment sites and do it. If there is enough links linking back to other pages, then Microsoft’s rating should diminish.
Go for it! Seize the Day!
Posted in Memes and Stuff by Eran with 5 comments.
Actually – not just any link from “HTTP”. the whole point is getting one thing in particular that will rank higher then Microsoft on Google. Just having all sort of stuff won’t do it.
The call to arms is to link http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ to HTTP, in hopes that it will rank higher then Microsoft. I think its a bit broken because the current second place is W3 main page, and not the protocols page – so it will take so much more effort to get the protocols page to first place.
I just added the wikipedia page for the heck of it.
Do you get a message about things posted in my blog or is your timing just impecably annoying?
impecably annoying :-).
No actually wordpress “pings” URL that you mention in your post, not only those in the “pingback” section
אז אתה מקבל הודעה אם קישרתי לאתר שלך?
חיובי. תראה, אני אעשה גם