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    Google starting to spider IDN's?

    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

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    Re: Google starting to spider IDN's?

    Quote 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.


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    Re: Google starting to spider IDN's?

    Quote Originally Posted by dwrixon
    Richard,

    Showing as www.vendée.com when I looked.


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

    Richard

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    Re: Google starting to spider IDN's?

    Quote 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.

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    Re: Google starting to spider IDN's?

    Quote 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.

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

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    Re: Google starting to spider IDN's?

    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".

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    Re: Google starting to spider IDN's?

    Quote 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.

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    Re: Google starting to spider IDN's?

    Quote 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.

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