{"id":69,"date":"2004-01-28T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T00:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2004-01-28T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T00:10:16","slug":"an-ip-address-is-to-dns-as-a-url-is-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/69","title":{"rendered":"An IP address is to DNS as a URL is to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read <a href='http:\/\/www.clarkware.com\/cgi\/blosxom\/2004\/01\/27#AnotherLessonFromGrandpa'>this post<\/a> from Mike Clark.  Now, I agree with some of what he says.  It&#8217;s true that it is a whole lot easier to remember terms you were searching for than a URL.  Words and concepts are just plain easier to remember than strings where the slightest mistype will give you a 404 error.  That&#8217;s why we use DNS rather than just typing in IP addresses everywhere.  However, IP addresses work almost all the time, even when the DNS server is down or misconfigured.  If I know the IP address of a mail server, then I can still check my email even when I can&#8217;t resolve its domain name.  <\/p>\n<p>This is true of the search engine\/URL dichotomy as well.  Have you noticed the size of the uproar when <a>Google<\/a> changes <a href='http:\/\/www.google.com\/technology\/'>PageRank<\/a>?  Every time a search engine changes its ranking algorithms, it will throw into havoc any sites you&#8217;ve memorized via search terms.  And search engines change their systems more often than DNS goes down.  But <a href='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Provider\/Style\/URI.html'>cool URIs [URLs] don&#8217;t change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue is that when it&#8217;s so easy to search vast amounts of information, you don&#8217;t end up looking anywhere else.  This <a href='http:\/\/www.internetisshit.org\/'>rant<\/a>, which circulated a few months ago, highlights that issue.  It&#8217;s almost like, if you can&#8217;t find something online, you can&#8217;t be bothered to find out about it.  I do it myself.  Even results of search engine queries don&#8217;t get fully explored.  How often have you viewed anything other than the first page at google?<\/p>\n<p>I understand the power and love of search engines, but folks, including myself, need to be sure to understand the implications of using them as shorthand for permanent links and\/or shortcuts for true research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this post from Mike Clark. Now, I agree with some of what he says. It&#8217;s true that it is a whole lot easier to remember terms you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}