Really.
Google takes a lot of facts from CIA World Factbook. Now all the links to CIA are broken, because CIA moved from http: // to https ://.
Example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Country+Name+of+Russia
Russia — Country Name: Conventional long form: Russian Federation conventional short form: Russia local long form: ... According to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2142.html
If you click on the CIA link, you are redirected to this error page: https://www.cia.gov/redirects/factbookredirect.html
They should just redirect http: //www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2142.html to https ://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2142.html
Now Google needs to fix all those links. |
Maybe the CIA pages won't be in the Google Q&A anymore doing Google's next automated (?) iteration... because they might lose their PageRank, thus authority. CIA's doing anti-SEO moving URLs like that, not that I think they care much (they're gov't/ tax financed anyway right?). Their data is public, by the way, and can be copied onto other pages (I used it on http://Authorama.com)... maybe Google will just take the data from other sites now... |
This shows a certain lack of...intelligence. |