Google’s Bug Confirmed. In.Com wont be indexed unless it is fixed. (We stand corrected – Thanks to John)

Posted by Abbas ||

August 11, 2008 ||

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We recently reported the launch of In.Com and how it will be one of the most visited Indian portals in the time to come, however Google begs to differ.

You don’t hear about bugs in Google often so enjoy the moment. Google hasn’t identified In.Com as a domain name, it takes "in.com" as a TLD or the extension to a domain name. e.g. tnerd.in.com. When we wrote about In.Com first on TNerd we quitely touched upon the issue of Google not indexing however we did not dwell into it much as it was not very clear then.

As few pages from In.Com have been indexed, the issue is much more visible. Searching for In.Com’s pages in Google index shows pages only from the sub-domains e.g. kinng.in.com/ - Sing is Kinng Contest site. Though it is a subdomain Google indexed it identifying it as main domain.

If this bug is not fixed Google will never index pages under in.com but the chances are that these pages will be indexed under www.in.com as it treats www as a domain.

In.Com should escalate this bug to Google through Google webmaster central and this should be taken care off.

[Update: 12th Aug] Thanks for pointing that out John!

Tags: Google, Google Bug, IBNLive, in.com, Network18

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