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Today I found quite an interesting “data center” of Google and this is http://ggoogle.com.

The first thing that stunned me is that ggoogle.com doesn’t redirect to google.com. All the pages remain with the domain ggoogle.com including the advertising program and so on. We could say Google could be accused by their own rules - duplicate content.

I’m wondering what Matt Cutts thinks about that.

Further more I’ve conducted some searches and it seams that the main index is updated but the images index isn’t.

Here is an example with Digg.com.

The Google Images Index Results 1 - 20 of about 3,930 for site:digg.com. (0.04 seconds)
The Ggogle Images Index Results 1 - 20 of about 725 for site:.digg.com. (0.02 seconds)

With MSN

Google Images Index Results 1 - 20 of about 396,000 for site:msn.com. (0.04 seconds)
Ggoogle Images Index Results 1 - 20 of about 192,000 for site:msn.com. (0.07 seconds)

Very big differences in the “relevant results”.

The domain ggoogle.com is registered by google.com and has their nameservers:

Registrar: MARKMONITOR, INC.
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Dates: Created 04-jul-2000 Updated 06-nov-2006 Expires 04-jul-2007
DNS Servers: NS2.GOOGLE.COM NS1.GOOGLE.COM NS3.GOOGLE.COM NS4.GOOGLE.COM

I’m wondering what marketing specialists Wolf Howl and Shoemoney have to say about this.
Is this a forgotten data center? Is this duplicate content? How is a mistake like this possible?

What’s your opinion?

later update

Thanks to a digg user utcursch

Google owns most of their typos (gogle, gogole, gooogle etc)

Some of these will redirect you to google. For eg. the following redirect me to http://www.google.co.in/
http://gewgle.com/
http://googlecom.com/

Some others don’t redirect to google. For eg.
http://www.gppgle.com/
http://gewgol.com/

GGoogle.com belongs to the second category.

Yahoo mail has just made a little change in their sign in process. They took the example of gmail and now the user has the option to remain signed in for two weeks. It’s a step that Yahoo could have made a long time ago, but chosed for many years to remember only the username, I think for security reasons.
I’ve tried to navigate to mail.yahoo.com with various browsers but the new options is not always showing, so I’ve made a screenshot of it.

Yahoo mail keeps you signed in for 2 weeks

Yahoo mail keeps you signed in for 2 weeks