tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9318552.post-1152258283410045092006-07-07T00:25:00.000-07:002006-07-07T00:56:39.640-07:00I have passion for <span style="color:#cc33cc;">search engines</span>, and like others I do spend <span style="color:#cc33cc;">lot of time in searching</span>. I like searching on <strong>Google, Yahoo and MSN</strong>, they are my <span style="color:#cc33cc;">favorite search engines</span>. And being a <em><span style="color:#3333ff;">Search Engine Optimization professional</span></em>, I do keep looking at the searches, study them, and collect the data for my projects/sites.<br />I have another blog, <a href="http://herapheri.blogspot.com">Sher, Shayari, Jokes and PJ’s </a>just for fun where I post the email forward contents from friends and colleagues, which contains funny stuff like jokes, puzzles etc and being into IT company one gets lots of such emails everyday :)<br /><br />Enough about myself, let me get to the point:<br />Well I was <a href="http://www.google.co.in/search?q=shayari">searching for “<strong>Shayari</strong>” (without quotes) in Google</a>, to check relevant blogs and sites that have similar contents as my other <a href="http://herapheri.blogspot.com">blog on Sher and Shayari</a>, and found some weird results on page 3(Results 21-30 of …), below is a screenshot of the same:<br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2073/674/1600/Shayari-on-Google.1.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="Search result for shayari on google" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2073/674/320/Shayari-on-Google.1.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><br />So what’s the catch?<br />If you look carefully at the results you will realize that <span style="color:#cc33cc;">5 results are from the same domain</span> but with different sub-domains and the <span style="color:#cc33cc;">search listing appears exactly same</span> except for the part of “City” name. Now when you open each of these pages, you will find that all these<span style="color:#cc33cc;"> pages hold the same content</span> too except the “City” name.<br /><br />Looking at the different results from the same domain (with city specific sub domains), I was wondering, <strong>is it really good for the end User?</strong>, and then I thought it could possibly a bug in the Search Giant, because I certainly see a flaw and more than <span style="color:#cc33cc;">technical bug</span> I will call it as <span style="color:#cc33cc;"><em>Usability Problem</em></span> as only one result is enough as all the pages hold the same contents.<br /><br />Well I know and accept that <span style="color:#cc33cc;">Google considers sub-domain as different website</span>, but then as far as I know <span style="color:#cc33cc;">Google also do not consider different pages with exactly same content moreover Google may ban the duplicate pages</span>. Considering these facts, how should we take the above search listings?<br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">I hope Google will notice this posting and take care of this problem soon.</span>Dinesh Gajbhiyenoreply@blogger.com