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Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for 'Hacker News'

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Post by AretNCarlsen » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for 'Hacker News'
google.com

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#2

Post by AretNCarlsen » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 5:49 PM UTC

Or even on the first page. (I notice because I always get to HN this way. Today is the first time I have ever seen it below #1 or #2.)

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#3

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 6:00 PM UTC

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#4

Post by lhnz » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 6:02 PM UTC

I actually think this might be positive for the quality of the conversation on this site.

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#5

Post by cletus » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 6:03 PM UTC

Raised here already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277365

FWIW I've raised this issue.

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Post by tpr1m » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 6:04 PM UTC

That website sucks too :\

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#7

Post by Matt_Cutts » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 6:04 PM UTC

cletus wrote: post #5

Raised here already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277365 FWIW I've raised this issue.

Thanks, cletus. I'll file one too, just to help make sure people check it out.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 6:06 PM UTC

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#9

Post by Matt_Cutts » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

I think I know what the problem is; we're detecting HN as a dead page. It's unclear whether this happened on the HN side or on Google's side, but I'm pinging the right people to ask whether we can get this fixed pretty quickly.

Added: Looks like HN has been blocking Googlebot, so our automated systems started to think that HN was dead. I dropped an email to PG to ask what he'd like us to do.

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#10

Post by pierrefar » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 6:14 PM UTC

Hi

I work at Google helping webmasters.

It seems something has been blocking Googlebot from crawling HN, and so our algorithms think the site is dead. A very common cause is a firewall.

I realize that pg has been cracking down on crawlers recently. Maybe there was an unexpected configuration change? If Googlebot is crawling too fast, you can slow it down in Webmaster Tools.

I'm happy to answer any questions. This is a common issue.

Pierre

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