Google oddness
I just tried this search : site:www.yahoo.com
The first result came back as
Yahoo!
Welcome to Yahoo!, the world’s most visited home page. Quickly find what you’re searching for, get in touch with friends and stay in-the-know with the …
@www.yahoo.com/ - 72k - Cached - Similar pages
Wierd - see the @ symbol before the www? If you click on it, you get the Yahoo home page (I think I got the “you are entering a page with a username” warning too, but I wasn’t paying attention, so I don’t know if it was the SE or the browser that generated it). However, the cached page is broken, and special seaches like link: won’t work because the syntax breaks.
So, where the hell does that result come from? The very similar site:yahoo.com works fine, returning results from other major subdomains. It may be no more than an artifact of Y’s odd DNS policy, but in any case, how the hell does it outrank the main www subdomain?