Website ??

1492 wrote:
Website: www.billdelorey.com
Alternate www.wildlifeUSA.net

Both URLs opened fine for me in Firefox, redirecting to https://billdelorey.com/. No search page results.

'www' is actually a sub-domain to indicate world wide web in the early days of internet. Most hosts configure their servers to automatically redirect to your registered domain name.

Same with Safari o n a Mac.

Website: www.billdelorey.com
Alternate www.wildlifeUSA.net

Both URLs opened fine for me in Firefox, redirecting to https://billdelorey.com/. No search page results.

'www' is actually a sub-domain to indicate world wide web in the early days of internet. Most hosts configure their servers to automatically redirect to your registered domain name.

monkey44 wrote:
I have a website for photos etc. When I type in the address in Google, it comes up properly. When I type the address in Firefox, it just gives me a search page with a bunch of irrelevant sites, none of which are my website.

Anyway, anyone know why it won't recognize my website?

Is Firefox configured to use Google as default search engine on your PC?

If it isn't that may explain why it isn't seeing the same results..

Different search engines typically will result in different results and that is due to the way the search engine is designed.

Most search engines will use key words, it finds them using programs called "spiders" which find and locate keywords then it indexes the locations.

Websites that have a lot of hits tend to get rated higher and tend to show up in higher in ranking.

From HERE..

"In the simplest case, a search engine could just store the word and the URL where it was found. In reality, this would make for an engine of limited use, since there would be no way of telling whether the word was used in an important or a trivial way on the page, whether the word was used once or many times or whether the page contained links to other pages containing the word. In other words, there would be no way of building the ranking list that tries to present the most useful pages at the top of the list of search results.

To make for more useful results, most search engines store more than just the word and URL. An engine might store the number of times that the word appears on a page. The engine might assign a weight to each entry, with increasing values assigned to words as they appear near the top of the document, in sub-headings, in links, in the meta tags or in the title of the page. Each commercial search engine has a different formula for assigning weight to the words in its index. This is one of the reasons that a search for the same word on different search engines will produce different lists, with the pages presented in different orders."

A good explanation of search engines can be found..

HERE

As a rule, I rarely use Google or Bing..

I use a multi search engine called DOGPILE which actually uses multiple search engines in a search and often gives me better results than just using one search engine at a time..

www.wildlifeUSA.net and www.billdelorey.com open fine in both MS Edge and Chrome for me. www.billdelorey.com opens to the same address while www.wildlifeUSA.net points to and opens to www.billdelorey.com

1492 wrote:
Go ahead and post the link if you want. I'm giving you the permission to do so in this case, so we can test it ourselves.

OK. probably temporarily, but that's OK.

Website: www.billdelorey.com
Alternate www.wildlifeUSA.net

I own both addresses, but both point to the same site for different reasons. I'm a journalist and post photos and info from nature, which is what I research and write about in various magazines, or private institutions.

2oldman - Yes, I can bookmark it, but it's also referenced in other venues as the second address for publication reasons.

It's easier just to bookmark it. What am I missing here?

Go ahead and post the link if you want. I'm giving you the permission to do so in this case, so we can test it ourselves.