Google Hates Apple
For some reason, Google isn’t indexing the logo. Granted, you have to be using Mac OS X to see in the first place. Try the search for yourself. If that link doesn’t include the Apple logo, try this search instead – which may not work properly if (again) you’re not using Mac OS X. This doesn’t really mean anything in the grand scheme of things, but I thought it was interesting enough to point out.
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12 Comments
Brandon Cummings
June 9th, 2009
at 2:35pm
They don’t index “!”, either.
D14BL0
June 9th, 2009
at 2:35pm
Well duh. It’s a strange, unused character.
Guess what? Google also hates the left-pointing triangle.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%E2%97%84&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=%E2%97%84&aqi=&fp=KUXUGZnmYHg
Freelancer
June 9th, 2009
at 2:38pm
Hrm… Interesting…
Actv18
June 9th, 2009
at 2:38pm
No, you don’t. I’m on Fedora and I can see the mighty (apple) just fine.
Oscar Godson
June 9th, 2009
at 2:39pm
Not surprising because they don’t index the “*”,”,”,”(”, “)” etc either. Those are special characters and I don’t believe any search engines would index those because alone because how do you put weight on the ( alone for every site indexed?
thelarssan
June 9th, 2009
at 2:42pm
Oh wow! :)
Jake
June 9th, 2009
at 2:46pm
Well thats what we get us apple user, also I send to an email
mike smick
June 9th, 2009
at 3:00pm
Might be a nofollow or robots.txt (hide image directory) technique to prevent it.
neclimdul
June 9th, 2009
at 3:11pm
No one does…
http://www.bing.com/search?q=
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=
http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/results/Web//1/417/TopNavigation/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true
zitiboat
June 11th, 2009
at 9:45am
Personally, I have been boycotting anything google unless absolutely nescessarry. Just like Target stores but that is another story.
I switched to Win7 to do my part and because I had been trying to get away without buying an OS for my homebuild system and got caught using 1 Xp home on 2 machines so I needed an operating system fast and cheap.
Much to my surprise, google is so firmly entrenched in Win7 that I gave up trying to remove the toolbar and added features.
What I find extremely interesting about an ad based browser…oops, I meant to say helper object., is that if you are not sure how to spell the official kmart website URL and use google to look it up you get directed to Walmart first.
Aaron
June 16th, 2009
at 10:35am
Well, then so does Yahoo, Ask, Dog Piles, and BING LOL!
Bobby
June 20th, 2009
at 10:36am
“This doesn’t really mean anything in the grand scheme of things…” and yet, it’s enough for you to title it with such a bold statement such as “Google hates Apple?”