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> Not enough adsense on the page. But more seriously the fact that it is a usenet post copied to reocities with probably zero inbound links hurts its ranking.
by cbd1984 11y ago
> Not enough adsense on the page. But more seriously the fact that it is a usenet post copied to reocities with probably zero inbound links hurts its ranking.
Also not helping: Reocities is a website hosting the Geocities dump Jason Scott and his merry band of guerrilla archivists made back before Yahoo killed Geocities. The point of Reocities (and Oocities, and possibly others) is to allow people to fix their old Geocities links by changing one letter in the domain name.
So it's not only obscure, it's an ancient document which has been rehosted, so none of the original links to it still work.
- userbinator 11y agoThe thing is, Googling the link (the Reocities version, not the original Geocities one) reveals that others have linked to it a few times before - that's how I originally found it - and I've also linked to it from here on HN; yet Google seems to refuse to acknowledge the existence of that page itself, as searching for specific quoted phrases in it shows. In other words this isn't "link rot"; it's more like "Google rot". I think it's even more unfortunate that such gems of information are being lost not because the sites hosting them are gone, but because search engines are rendering them inaccessible despite the sites still existing. In fact with things like the Internet Archive, coming across a dead link is not so bad; not being able to know (from a simple search) that a page with such information actually exists, but just wasn't present in the results, is far worse. This isn't the first time I've seen Google "disappear" pages still around and containing useful information, but it makes for a good example. Edit: I didn't know Jason Scott was behind Reocities - I think he deserves another donation.