Search for "http" on Google

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Misc.

I was trying to remember if the second "T" in HTTP stood for "transfer" or "transport," because let's face it, even code monkey geeks don't think about it every day. To find out, I typed it into Google because of their convenient link to the definition.

What was interesting was the search results. Ranked first among the 576 million results was Microsoft, followed by AltaVista, Yahoo, the W3C, Excite, Lycos, CNN, Amazon, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Mapquest, Adobe, Go.com, Dogpile, Netscape, the World Health Organization, Google itself, Metacrawler, The New York Times, Real Networks and finally, The Internet Movie Database.

Interesting top 20 search for "http." Any guesses on how it arrives at that result?

6 Comments

Interesting.... Thinking it's the most active sites on the net?

Chris Hammond - Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:31:00 PM

It's strictly pagerank, because every link to them contains "http"

Damian - Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:42:00 PM

I thought pagerank would be a little smarter than to consider protocol specification to be a part of the link. It's a little different than using http in the link text.

As for Jeff's answer: just go to the source - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt (HTTP 1.1 standard).

Jerry Pisk - Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:34:00 AM

Search for "define:http" next time ;)

Andrew - Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:12:00 AM

Jerry, You just demonstrated why it is, your link text to ietf.org contains http ! :)

Daren - Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:54:00 AM

You can also search for www or com...

Fabrice - Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:44:00 AM

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