Is Google experimenting with swapping out .com domains when an equivalent .xxx exists?
 

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ifriends


Come back and post here what you see please.

I got ifriends.xxx as the number 1 result.
Note: There is no Google cache of friends.xxx.

Lots of domain ages, authorities, inbound links, and lots of other scoring variables exist on the rest of those results on page 1. It appears that all of that is being disregarded at the moment. Why is the question.

Will be interesting to see if this is just Google adding the extension to their index, or if there is more to it.


Read more at: DomainIncite.com http://domainincite.com/google-ranks...-than-its-com/

yup. time to grab some xxx domains i guess.

ifriends.xxx is #1

That would just be fantastic if they gave .xxx priority over .com.

Total Backlinks: 0

Just make sure you purchase them through Nalem's affiliate link :thumbsup

searching incognito get ifriends.com at 1 http://www.ifriends.xxx/membrg/twrp....etcustomlayout at 2.

shows up as #2 here.. I get ifriends.com as #1

why they would favor a brand new tld that will be full of holding pages, i don't see it happening.

pimpin ... all the years of work replaced with few weeks old site ... go google go! :Oh crap

same as pornojew, logged in to my google account. Never searched the phrase before (results by history is off anyway, fwiw).

ifriends.xxx on google.co.uk too

nalem.xxx isn't resolving though

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...128035363.html

ICM Registry Announces Launch of iFriends.xxx, First High-Profile .XXX Site

PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ICM Registry, the company behind the .XXX top level domain (TLD), today announces the launch of ifriends.xxx, the first high-profile site to launch in the .XXX space.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110818/FL54629LOGO )
iFriends, the internet's first large-scale adult webcam network, has been the template for virtually all other adult webcam sites. Since its inception in 1998, iFriends has introduced numerous innovations such as Cam2Cam, HD video, and 3D video streaming technology, all things that today are taken for granted in the online adult space.
"We are proud to be part of the Founders Program and are enthusiastic about the opportunities that working with ICM Registry presents for us and our affiliates," says Stacy Psaros, WebPower's spokesperson. "Our company's culture is one of innovation and forward-thinking business practices. We recognized these same qualities in ICM Registry and the .XXX space. ifriends.xxx is just the first of a number of prominent domains that we look forward to launching."
"WebPower's vision of the adult marketplace and their way of detecting and developing new opportunities such as .XXX are remarkable," says Vaughn Liley of ICM Registry. "Their participation in the Founders program is particularly valuable given their long history and prominence in the adult industry. The launch of these sites clearly demonstrates our goal of making .XXX a vibrant and content-rich domain."
The iFriends adult webcam network is operated by WebPower, Inc. WebPower also operates the ClickCash affiliate marketing program, one of the oldest and largest adult affiliate programs.
ICM Registry is now focused on the launch that starts on September 7 with the opening of the Sunrise period. For more information, please visit about.xxx

Google sees me as an iFriends.com person

Scroogle says IFriends.com is top and .xxx second

ifriends.net came up first for me.

Maybe someone is paying some money for those results.

I've got iFriends.net as a Google Ad at the top

I think it's way to early to jump to conclusions.

There are many other industries that have their own extensions.

When you look for cheap cruises, you don't get cheapcruises.travel, you get all .coms

When you look for airlines, you don't get airlines.aero, you get all .coms

When you look for jobs, you don't get jobs.jobs, you get all .coms


However,

When you look for US Army, you do get Army.mil

When you look for Stanford University, you do get Standford.edu

When you look for Red Cross, you get RedCross.org


It appears to me that when the search connects the user to a commercial entity, .com still rules the planet. In every case, when I search for something that is education, government, or non profit organizations, you will get the specialty extension, .mil, .edu, .org.

.XXX is a for profit, commercial extension. That's pretty clear.

My :2 cents: anyhow.

Interesting. Thanks!!

:thumbsup

ifriends.xxx nr 1
ifriends.net nr 2

Maybe Xbiz or AVN should reach out to Google and see if they can get a comment?

Chances are that's a waste of a phone call, but ehhhh, what the hell.

If back links meant so much then nothing but hosted galleries and TGPs would come up in results.

Nobody has more back links than a hosted gallery or TGP that requires a link back.

yeah back links have nothing to do with ranking. your theory is flawed.

I don't even see an ifriends.com The first organic result is .xxx. There is a paid .net above it.


http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...128035363.html

Maybe they used google webmaster tools to change domains?

http://www.ifriends.net/membrg2/Live...om.dll?t=site/ is #1 for me.

No .xxx on first 2 pages.

This isn't necessarily done by google.
With the right headers and redirects for googlebots, ifriends.com could make google show .xxx instead.
Perhaps it's part of ICM's strategy. Force this domain to get ranked before the .com, so that people see it, and thing .xxx has an advantage in the serps

Anything in the source code of ifriends.com to suggest redirects?

I get two paid results, the dot com, then the dot xxx. Then I see the dot net, and a twiter site.

I've put new dot coms online that jumped to the top of the listings only to be beaten down a short time later.

www.ifriends.net #1 @ bing.com

Probably.

Here's how it is done:

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=83106

Went in using a different browser and logged into G. Still do not see the .com unless I search for the .com.

Their paid ad does not go to the .xxx

I do not like what google does. Because I do not like .xxx domains.

Yet the results you point to matches my theory exactly. Go figure.

Paid Inclusion

more like a redirect in webmaster tools. you wrong again. go figure.

if so it is interesting they are going to favor the .xxx instead if the .com

ifriends.xxx is #1 here.

I don't know, but I think a double standard is being applied here. If I has pointed this out, the idiots would have suggested that I am only pointing this out as some form of advertising for ICM.

seeric does, and the thought never crosses your collective minds?

It will all come out in the end baddog.

HAHA!

I knew you would not let me have the last word no matter what.

:1orglaugh

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^ Porno Jew?

same results for me

So glad that I don't care what "idiots" think either way. :thumbsup

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The big double standard here seems to be that if google treats this extention so differently than the other extentions that have been released in the past the question is why is google accepting this extention so quickly while basically rejecting all other new tlds.

Exactly what I was thinking.

no mystery.. they added it as default domain in gwt

I wonder what the incentive was for ifriends.

If u are logged into your google account it is probably giving only u that result.

you = stupid.

Just speculating here, but Free.xxx has iFriends written all over it. Maybe they got Free.xxx in the Founders Program as part of the deal.