I’m pondering using Google Search for the search function in the sidebar, but when I tell it to only return results for is-here.com it also returns results for sub-domains, like dgd.is-here.com, it.is-here.com, nl.is-here.com, etc, which makes it largely useless.
It’s possible to exclude various sub-domains for a regular search, but for the site-search form where you indicate the domains to search in a hidden input field, I know of no such possibility. To clarify, I basically need the equivalent of:
site:is-here.com -site:it.is-here.com -site:nl.is-here.com -site:dgd.is-here.com
Help?
I think the only way to fix that is to make “www.” work. It only realiases to is-here.com right now. If you make it work on its own as well (option in dreamhost panel) and then create a google account thingie for is-here.com, you can tell Google whether or not http://www. should be displayed in search results instead. That way searches for is-here.com can be set to site:www.is-here.com, and it won’t return results for code. etc.
-Kalle.
Right now I’ve got the DreamHost entry for is-here.com set to Remove “www.” if somebody goes to http://www.domain.com/. You’re suggesting I go for the Both http://www.domain.com/ and http://domain.com/ work. option instead? I guess it’s worth a shot, although I’ll first do the Google thing, to see what else I may need to do.
Thanks!
I’ve set the wheels in mtion but it’ll be a while until Google has indexed everything for http://www.is-here.com that it’s already indexed for is-here.com. Time to be patient.
I’d be inspired to do the same but I tend to have only one thing per domain, except enrogue which is some kind of catch-all thing. Then again, http://www.enrogue.com itself is … nothing … right now. If anything, I’d *want* the behavior you don’t.