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> Drop the strong signal of a search term being in the domain name [...] It's been abused beyond belief.

I whole-heartedly agree—but people still search for "facebook.com login" and similarly trivial queries. If Google broke returning "facebook.com/login" for these it'd lose a lot of its value for these people.




I can only imagine how many links facebook login has across the web from their widgets. Don't think we have to worry about them falling out of the top spot for that query, in fact if they did google would likely get a visit from the DOJ soon after...


Here's a link to a RWW story about what msbarnett is talking about: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_illiteracy_how_much...

It surprised me at first, but I really forget what it's like to be tech illiterate.


The Facebook login page did fall out of the top spot last year in favor of a ReadWriteWeb story about changes to the Facebook login page.

The comment thread rapidly filled with deeply confused people complaining that they couldn't figure out how to log in on this new page.




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