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Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by TreeInBuxton »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #37
dirk94018 wrote: post #19

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Extremely offtopic but I accidentally pasted the link linuxtoaster.com. (with the dot) and I thought it would lead to my search engine (DDG) or something but then the website opened. Then I tried opening up google.com. and this works too. I didn't know that websites resolve when you add another additional dot after TLD. This was a really fun coincidence type thing so I wanted to share it with you.

That's what makes domains true FQDNs :)

I read an interesting blog article on this a while back: https://lacot.org/blog/2024/10/29/the-trailing-dot-in-domain...

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #37
dirk94018 wrote: post #19

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Extremely offtopic but I accidentally pasted the link linuxtoaster.com. (with the dot) and I thought it would lead to my search engine (DDG) or something but then the website opened. Then I tried opening up google.com. and this works too. I didn't know that websites resolve when you add another additional dot after TLD. This was a really fun coincidence type thing so I wanted to share it with you.

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Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by troymc »

lucasluitjes wrote: post #38

I've been annoyed with Google search quality lately and was wondering how the others fared on this specific issue. Turns out, mostly not much better. Bing, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia, Brave all had the github repo and nanoclaw.net (the fake homepage) in the first or second place. Marginalia had fascinating results about biology but only tangentially related Nanoclaw results, not the github repo or either the fake or r…

For me in Canada today, Kagi is showing nanoclaw.wrongtld as the third text link, after two different GitHub repos (why two? I didn't have time to sort that out). I clicked the thing to block the link to the site with the wrong TLD; hopefully other Kagi subscribers will do the same.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #35

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It took me a long time to realise that people value things by how much they pay for them, not by how much they cost to produce. It doesn't matter if that's software, a pair of trousers or a meal at a restaurant.

This extends into the world of work as well. Employers that don't pay well tend to treat their employees poorly.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by cainetighe »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #33

Duckduckgo actually shows nanoclaw.net as the first result and the github page as second. Another point but DDG's AI feature actually references Nanoclaw.net as a source. Damn I booted up Orion (Kagi) and even Kagi shows nanoclaw.net as the third result after the github page with qwibitai and another github page with your (previous?) github username ie gavrielc which when clicked on also results to the same github pa…

We can fix this quickly at DuckDuckGo, and we will for organics. I suspect part of the problem is I am seeing a TLS issue with the nanoclaw.dev site.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by bakugo »

roywiggins wrote: post #26

I'll be honest, I'd take this more seriously if this post didn't read like ChatGPT output. If you won't spend the effort to use your own words why should I stir myself to care? Sorry, I'll put it in hand-crafted ChatGPTese: ## The Slop Problem Every post sounds the same. No intelligence. No individuality. Just pure, clean LLM slop. Let's dive in. - Every post has LLM tells . This is key. - Posts get upvoted anyway .…

The post is AI generated, the project is AI generated, the "real" website is AI generated, the "fake" website is AI generated.

It's slop all the way down.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by roywiggins »

bakugo wrote: post #46
roywiggins wrote: post #26

I'll be honest, I'd take this more seriously if this post didn't read like ChatGPT output. If you won't spend the effort to use your own words why should I stir myself to care? Sorry, I'll put it in hand-crafted ChatGPTese: ## The Slop Problem Every post sounds the same. No intelligence. No individuality. Just pure, clean LLM slop. Let's dive in. - Every post has LLM tells . This is key. - Posts get upvoted anyway .…

The post is AI generated, the project is AI generated, the "real" website is AI generated, the "fake" website is AI generated. It's slop all the way down.

I'll be honest I really did have slightly higher hopes for computer-touchers when it comes to retaining cognitive authority over machines.

Instead it seems like there's a solid core of people who have always wanted to outsource their brains entirely to machines, and have finally got their wish.

I'm old enough to remember when we joked about normies who were dumb enough to let computers think for them.

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