: Why are the same two web pages appearing on the first page of Google's SERP? While searching in google.co.in for the keyword term "USA Boxing News", I found the same two web pages are showing

@Gloria169

Although both the IP address and domain might lead to the same content at any given moment, the content for each was likely indexed on different dates. Note the differences in the snippet for the IP address, which starts with "5 days ago", versus the snippet for the domain.

It looks like much of the content there is dynamic and changes frequently, as other news-based sites do. Hence they're not the same web pages as of the date they're indexed on, and both are valid URL's - although the domain name resolves back to the IP address, Google can index IP addresses too.

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