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Ask HN: Why do AngularJS docs not show up in Google search results anymore?
Been doing AngularJS development lately and noticed their docs haven't been showing up in Google.
For example, doing a search for "anguarjs input radio button" should show https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/input/input%5Bradio%5D as a result but that doesn't appear to be the case. Seems to work fine for Bing though.
Here's one of those Bing/Google comparison websites:
http://bvsg.org/search.html?cx=007161580536721391517%3Avdigoonuosm&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=anguarjs+input+radio+button&sa=Search&siteurl=bvsg.org%2F&ref=www.google.com%2F&ss=0j0j1
- maxharris 9y agoI don't actually know the answer, but what I do know is that no one I know ever talks about Angular, and I haven't run into it in years. I think it's dead...
- mtmail 9y ago"Node.js and AngularJS continue to be the most commonly used technologies in this category." https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-frameworks-libraries-and-other-technologies https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-fr...
- breeny592 9y agoIt's still used in quite a lot of enterprise production applications, would say it's on the decline but no where near dead.
- BjoernKW 9y agoThat you haven't run into a technology in years doesn't mean it's dead. It just means that that technology for one reason or another just isn't used in your environment. I can tell you that both AngularJS and Angular 2 are far from dead. Both existing and new applications (mostly Angular 2) are being actively developed with these technologies.
- aviv 9y agoYou couldn't be more wrong. For consulting shops, Angular 1.x is and will remain a huge revenue generator for many years to come.
- hluska 9y agoInteresting find! I'm rocking my daughter to sleep so don't have a chance to go any deeper, but I tried "site:docs.angularjs.org input radio button" and still couldn't get a result from their site. If I search "docs.angularjs.org" I bring up that page in serps, but I still can't get any deep results. I'll take a look on my laptop and see if I can shed any light on this for you.
- BjoernKW 9y agoPerhaps it has something to do with Google pushing Angular 2. I wouldn't suspect anything nefarious though. Maybe, angularjs.org for some reason just put a robots.txt in place that prevents search engines from indexing and Bing just hasn't caught up yet.
- ayyley 9y agoThey're having a few issues with it right now it seems. https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/16432 https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/16432
- pypypypypypy 9y agoThere are a few issues on Github that would explain this. It seems that they tried migrating to FireBase and are ironing out some things still. https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/16432 https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/16432 https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/16447 https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/16447