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Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

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Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

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I'm now getting _this HN article_ as the top Google result for "list of public atproto relays". Weird.

Yes, I "used an incognito window". Yes, I checked on multiple devices. Yes, Google is personalized. Maybe if you search "list of public atproto relays" from East Timor you get lists of public atproto relays. But you sure don't from Seattle right now.

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

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post #31

I'm now getting _this HN article_ as the top Google result for "list of public atproto relays". Weird. Yes, I "used an incognito window". Yes, I checked on multiple devices. Yes, Google is personalized. Maybe if you search "list of public atproto relays" from East Timor you get lists of public atproto relays. But you sure don't from Seattle right now.

>I'm now getting _this HN article_ as the top Google result for "list of public atproto relays". Weird.

I find that happening all the time when I google stuff discussed in reddit threads, the top result is often the thread I just came from, despite whatever quote or lyric or whatever having existed for years outside of reddit.

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

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post #31

I'm now getting _this HN article_ as the top Google result for "list of public atproto relays". Weird. Yes, I "used an incognito window". Yes, I checked on multiple devices. Yes, Google is personalized. Maybe if you search "list of public atproto relays" from East Timor you get lists of public atproto relays. But you sure don't from Seattle right now.

Yes happened on reddit too here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1umokol

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah like /e/ os. That's hard to search for because the slash is ignored and the e is only one letter.

All the results for "e os" are about /e/OS, and that's its full name, so you wouldn't just search for "e". D language is a better example — its just called "D", but searching for that doesn't give results about the language. On the other hand, for "C" and "R" the top results are all about the languages. "Go" is also a pretty bad one, they insist it's not called "golang" but you basically have to search for that to ge…

Yeah but when e/os first changed their name it was much harder. I have a feeling these results have had some human help.

It used to be called eelo but some prick thought it sounded too similar to his one man consulting company and threatened to sue. In the beginning it worked much better to search for the old name.

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

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Google search has generally rotted. Can't get promoted for maintenance.

That’s best case scenario. Worst case is that they’re censoring the internet on a massive scale but have rolled it out slowly enough that no one noticed

No, they want you to search multiple times to show you more ads.
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