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by throwaway2037 411 days ago
I am not here to shill for Google, but I cannot believe that Google doesn't have a special arrangement with McMaster to index all of their part numbers! The advertising potential is very good. As a related point, I am almost sure they have special handling for programming searches to prefer StackOverflow over other sources. A few times, SO.com has made some incredibly tiny change to their webpages that made them virtually invisible to Google. After some internal email exchanges, SO.com was "fixed", and again, dominated Google programming searches. (Of course, this was 2010s... long before the AI slop era!)