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This has been been happening for years and getting increasingly worse. But it's not just old websites. I think it's certain types of content. Here is one speci
by gambler 8y ago
This has been been happening for years and getting increasingly worse. But it's not just old websites. I think it's certain types of content.
Here is one specific example out of dozens I've seen. There is a short satirical rant "published" on Pastebin called The Java Way. Posted in 2015. Unfindable on Google. It was indexed and findable around the time it was posted.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%22the+java+way%22+pastebin https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%22the+...
First result on DDG:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22the+java+way%22+pastebin&t=ffsb&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22the+java+way%22+pastebin&t=ffsb...
The worst part is that Pastebin uses Google for its own search.
- Macuyiko 8y agoAmazingly, three hours after your post, this hacker news comment is now showing up in the top 5 for the Google query. Wow.
- gambler 8y agoNot on my version of Google. But for me it started showing this as top result: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22the+java+way%22+paste... No information is available for this page. Learn why I tested this on different browsers and IPs. Seems like it indexed the link from this thread, but can't display it because of DDG's robots.txt settings or something like that. Bizarre.
- gambler 8y agoJust for historic record: Google finally started showing a link to the original pastebin page and it is the first result. I suspect it's because someone submitted the page to HN, which shows as the second result now. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19609280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19609280)
- travv0 8y agoYour DDG link is now the second result in the Google results for me. (One spot higher up than your reply.)