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    wrykyn
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    What does it mean ? I've noticed that www2.google.com works just the same as www.google.com www2.espn.com and most other sites don't work. Is there any special difference between the two (www and www2) ? "I believe I referred to her personality as a potential science exhibit." - Elaine, about Ellen, in "The Dog"

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      What does it mean ? I've noticed that www2.google.com works just the same as www.google.com www2.espn.com and most other sites don't work. Is there any special difference between the two (www and www2) ? "I believe I referred to her personality as a potential science exhibit." - Elaine, about Ellen, in "The Dog"

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      Jon Sagara
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      Probably just a name for a specific server. www3.google.com/[^] works, too.

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        What does it mean ? I've noticed that www2.google.com works just the same as www.google.com www2.espn.com and most other sites don't work. Is there any special difference between the two (www and www2) ? "I believe I referred to her personality as a potential science exhibit." - Elaine, about Ellen, in "The Dog"

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        Navin
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        The "www" really doesn't mean anything of itself - it's just a server or DNS name. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if google has some sort of load balancing and it names its servers "www", "www2", etc. "Fish and guests stink in three days." - Benjamin Franlkin

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          What does it mean ? I've noticed that www2.google.com works just the same as www.google.com www2.espn.com and most other sites don't work. Is there any special difference between the two (www and www2) ? "I believe I referred to her personality as a potential science exhibit." - Elaine, about Ellen, in "The Dog"

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          Charlie Williams
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          A lot of folks name their web servers "www", but it's just by convention. You can name your server whatever you want. Examples of other naming schemes include http://msdn.microsoft.com and http://office.microsoft.com. You'll get some perplexed looks from the average internet user if you give them a web address that begins with something other than www, though. Charlie if(!curlies){ return; }

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            A lot of folks name their web servers "www", but it's just by convention. You can name your server whatever you want. Examples of other naming schemes include http://msdn.microsoft.com and http://office.microsoft.com. You'll get some perplexed looks from the average internet user if you give them a web address that begins with something other than www, though. Charlie if(!curlies){ return; }

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            Andy Brummer
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            That's why they do things like this http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/ and http://www.support.dell.com/ So people don't get confused:doh:


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              The "www" really doesn't mean anything of itself - it's just a server or DNS name. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if google has some sort of load balancing and it names its servers "www", "www2", etc. "Fish and guests stink in three days." - Benjamin Franlkin

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              Google updates page ranking once a month. Preview of the new data index is available at www2.google.com & www3.google.com several days before it is updated at www.google.com. The time between the start and the end of an update is also known as Google-Dance. There are several tools available to compare the Google-Dance. Try this one[^] //Start of joke Never comment ur code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand !!! //End of joke

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                What does it mean ? I've noticed that www2.google.com works just the same as www.google.com www2.espn.com and most other sites don't work. Is there any special difference between the two (www and www2) ? "I believe I referred to her personality as a potential science exhibit." - Elaine, about Ellen, in "The Dog"

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                Radoslav Bielik
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                Even ww.google.com[^] works for me, but it shows a different version of the website. :) I once accidentally typed the address with only two "w" characters and was surprised that it works. I think I will do this for our own website too. :) Rado


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                  Even ww.google.com[^] works for me, but it shows a different version of the website. :) I once accidentally typed the address with only two "w" characters and was surprised that it works. I think I will do this for our own website too. :) Rado


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                  I've actually always thought it SHOULD be "ww"... Worldwide being one word and all.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D

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                    That's why they do things like this http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/ and http://www.support.dell.com/ So people don't get confused:doh:


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                    Gosh, www.msdn confused the heck out of me... regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Ian Darling wrote: "and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python." Crikey! ain't life grand?

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                      That's why they do things like this http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/ and http://www.support.dell.com/ So people don't get confused:doh:


                      The architect has placed his bets, but the odds are long -Poster Children

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                      Sometimes I think the people hosting my blog should allow this. As much as I like having my identity at the beginning, "http://forbesweb.typepad.com" seems to render some people helpless :sigh:


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                      • R Radoslav Bielik

                        Even ww.google.com[^] works for me, but it shows a different version of the website. :) I once accidentally typed the address with only two "w" characters and was surprised that it works. I think I will do this for our own website too. :) Rado


                        Radoslav Bielik http://www.neomyz.com/poll [^] - Get your own web poll

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                        You know, I never type www and http:// in my browser. Pretty much all sites dont require it. Vote for me! http://www.codeproject.com/netcf/TabletPC.asp http://www.codeproject.com/netcf/ShakyVoice.asp

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                          You know, I never type www and http:// in my browser. Pretty much all sites dont require it. Vote for me! http://www.codeproject.com/netcf/TabletPC.asp http://www.codeproject.com/netcf/ShakyVoice.asp

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                          Radoslav Bielik
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                          Vladimir Ralev wrote: You know, I never type www and http:// in my browser. Pretty much all sites dont require it. Yes, but there are still sites that can only be accessed with the "www" in front, I don't know if it's because the webmasters are too lazy or what's the real reason. "http://" is not required by the browsers and is usually added automatically, but I guess that you have to use it if the port is different from the default http port 80. Rado


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                            What does it mean ? I've noticed that www2.google.com works just the same as www.google.com www2.espn.com and most other sites don't work. Is there any special difference between the two (www and www2) ? "I believe I referred to her personality as a potential science exhibit." - Elaine, about Ellen, in "The Dog"

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                              Even ww.google.com[^] works for me, but it shows a different version of the website. :) I once accidentally typed the address with only two "w" characters and was surprised that it works. I think I will do this for our own website too. :) Rado


                              Radoslav Bielik http://www.neomyz.com/poll [^] - Get your own web poll

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                              wrykyn
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                              Different version ? In what way. I've looked at it real hard and it looks the same to me as regular google.com "I believe I referred to her personality as a potential science exhibit." - Elaine, about Ellen, in "The Dog"

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                                Different version ? In what way. I've looked at it real hard and it looks the same to me as regular google.com "I believe I referred to her personality as a potential science exhibit." - Elaine, about Ellen, in "The Dog"

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                                Radoslav Bielik
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                                That's funny, it shows the same version of the page for me too now. In the morning, www.google.com was showing the Slovak version (translated to Slovak) of the Google website, and ww.google.com was showing a different (I guess older) version of the Slovak Google site. Rado


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