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Can You Blame The Search Engine For Lost Wedding Presents?
from the hide-that-registry dept
This one is a bit bizarre... but apparently some search engines can take the "blame" for missing wedding presents, even if it's entirely accidental. What happens is that the happy couple signs up for one of the ever-popular online gift registry things. Then, they (or, at least the geekier half) puts up a website about the wedding itself with a link to the registry. Along comes the search engine spiders and they follow the link to the registry and index that as well. Then a few days/weeks/whatever later, along comes the random searcher, looking to buy a fondue set or gravy boat. They do a search on the search engine of their choice... and it points them directly to the wedding registry. However, without context, the shopper just thinks it's a product for sale, and has no idea it has anything to do with the registry. They buy the product, but instead of agreeing to have it shipped to the loving couple, they have it shipped to themselves instead. The registry marks the product as having been bought, and the couple faces the rest of their lives together without a gravy boat. Tragic. Of course, it would seem like there's a fairly simple solution to all of this -- which is just that the wedding registry pages should make it abundantly clear that when you go to buy something, you're buying it for that wedding.
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LOL, thats rich....
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That's probably what the wife is crying over.
Lesson learned, Life isnt perfect. You dont always get what you ASK for.
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this couple should put this issue behind them and buy whatever cookware they want/need, themselves. whats to say that the items which were purchased by the third-party would have been purchased by family and given to the married couple the first time through?
if the items never got purchased in the first place, who did this married couple expect to get these items from? the couple is upset that they didn't get the items and instead of dealing with their little problem on their own, they are looking for someone to blame.
what happens when they find that person to blame? do they think the person will give them the item for free, out of the kindness of this third-party's heart? probably not.
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Ha!
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Getting whatyou ask for?
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Re: Getting whatyou ask for?
Yeah, we hear that all too often.
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Re: Getting whatyou ask for?
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Or...
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
or the metacode
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Little things like that work and aren't THAT hard to do.
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With your analogy of "marriage", this would mean that when anyone who is to start a new company, that group can post up a list of items they need (which you are calling a "registry"), such as pens, paper, stapler, copy machine, computers, desks...etc, and all the friends and family of the married couple (business owners) should purchase that stuff for them.
Marriage is a joke in the USA. There is absolutely no good reason for any MAN to give up half of his $$$ to any woman - especially if she did not help create that half.
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yeah.....
BUT
i perfer the old one, because ti was so clean, and the text was wide and took NO time to load and this oen taks a few secs.
Well done theame but i perfer the old one, sorry techdirt
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Did you pay the search engine for the info.
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This is entirely pathetic. I do not care how much money you do or do not have, you are thankful for what you get and that is that.
No person is obligated to spend money they do not have on a specific present any couple wants.
You know what?
If a person was going to buy a present and they see that someone's bought that present already, they're probably going to spend just as much on a present that the couple also wants.
And, if the couple didn't want the new present then they should not have said they did.
Yeah..I agree that it's kinda shitty when you look at the list and see that everything's bought, and you don't get it all...but shit happens man.
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Is this off Topic?
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Good, I'm glad. Ef 'em
The culture of self has no bottom.
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Fun site
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metatags
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metatags
Is this what you're looking for?
META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW>
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There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.
http://www.voicesofunreason.com/fullthread$9042
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RE: whining
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It isn't that the couple is "expecting" a toaster oven, more that they prolly would have gotten a toaster oven if some random douche didnt buy one for himself through their registry.
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Corporate america
The real enemy here is the double-dipping retailer providing the registry service for "free".
Yeah, it's free alright, under the premise that people are going to by everything for their engaged friends / relatives through them. Then the icing on the cake - the registry's of said couple, up on the search block, creating more redundant search results, better search rankings and ultimately more sales. So who's to blame here? You really think it's an accident that the registry got indexed?
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bickering
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Back About the Subject...
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Did anyone even RTFA?
It could also just be abuse plain and simple. On my buddy's wedding page I'm forever picking incorrect answers on his 'trivia polls' just to be a nuisance.
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I'm in.
I'm jumpin in here if that's cool.
The comments made in these threads can be incredibly funny and insightful. The regulars are awesome here.
As for the registry: I could give a rat's ass if daddy's little girl gets her mixer. I do hope she and her husband or girlfriend spend more of their time getting to know, understand, and appreciate each other.
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Wedding Presents
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And yes compensation should be given to the other half if s/he has given up a career and a life to help the other pursue a lifetime career.
As for registries’ it happens get over the few things that you didn't get. It happened to us on our baby registry we just went a bought the items.
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Get over yourself
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a dish anull
I heard from someone skiing today that they're trying to clear up this whole registry thing. Whoever brought up the point about the companies not really caring about this had a good point.
hi dee hi hi dee ho
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I come back to what I said before. This is such a highly improbable situation that the site creators didn't even think about a situation like that, so you can't blame them. You can't even blame them for not knowing that this happened. They don't check every sell that they make to be sure that it goes to the couple. If they wanted that to happen, then they would just have the couple's address entered already, and you can't even send it to anyone else (like the buyer sent it to themself).
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Poor pitiful me
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haha
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