Google starting to spider IDN's?

**rawkinrich** · 09-25-2005, 12:33 PM

Hi all,

Checking out Google on one of our IDN's, and it seems to be listing them - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...%A9e.com&meta=.

Even though it is an old listing, it still listed the IDN www.vendée.com with the un-coverted domain as the link - http://www.xn--vende-esa.com.

Thoughts on this? Great news for the development of the IDN?

Richard

**Rubber Duck** · 09-25-2005, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by rawkinrich

Hi all,

Checking out Google on one of our IDN's, and it seems to be listing them - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...%A9e.com&meta=.

Even though it is an old listing, it still listed the IDN www.vendée.com with the un-coverted domain as the link - http://www.xn--vende-esa.com.

Thoughts on this? Great news for the development of the IDN?

Richard

Richard,

Showing as www.vendée.com when I looked.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

**rawkinrich** · 09-25-2005, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by dwrixon

Richard,

Showing as www.vendée.com when I looked.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

Seems that either Google or the IE Plugin are using the JavaScript 'Window Status'. Look at the source code Dave.

Richard

**Rubber Duck** · 09-25-2005, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by rawkinrich

Seems that either Google or the IE Plugin are using the JavaScript 'Window Status'. Look at the source code Dave.

Richard

No if right click on the URL in the listing the source code is:

<span dir="ltr">www.vendée.com/</span>

This would seem that the local characters are actually listed, which means they can be indexed.

If the plug-in was converting it would show the punycode.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

**rawkinrich** · 09-25-2005, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by dwrixon

No if right click on the URL in the listing the source code is:

<span dir="ltr">www.vendée.com/</span>

This would seem that the local characters are actually listed, which means they can be indexed.

If the plug-in was converting it would show the punycode.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

Ah I see. So either way it is great news for IDN's, don't you think?

Richard

**madcamel** · 10-01-2005, 02:38 AM

The problem is that Google sometimes treat internation letters as English letter. For example if you search for "vidéo", you get many results of "video".

**rawkinrich** · 10-01-2005, 05:44 AM

Originally Posted by madcamel

The problem is that Google sometimes treat internation letters as English letter. For example if you search for "vidéo", you get many results of "video".

I've noticed that too. As long as Google start to index IDN's, it's a good start and can only get better.

Richard

**Rubber Duck** · 10-01-2005, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by madcamel

The problem is that Google sometimes treat internation letters as English letter. For example if you search for "vidéo", you get many results of "video".

Yes, that's a real problem if you limit on the concept of IDN is putting accents on vowels. I don't generally invest in those. The problem does not arise with Hirigana, Kanji, Arabic or Davengari.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon