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Tell PG: You have a duplicate content problem
Google currently indexes apps.ycombinator.com and news.ycombinator.com and finds the same results. This is bad for SEO (not that it's really a problem for HN, but still not a best practice). As an example, I often get duplicate alerts from Google Alerts for terms that appear on Hacker News.
So... apps should 301 redirect to news.
Incidentally (and this is not why i posted this) I created a small site called inboxSEO.com and we're experimenting with a content scraper that crawls a site and finds this problem, among others...
- sagacity 16y agoGood catch. Here is a clickable link: http://inboxseo.com/ http://inboxseo.com/
- staunch 16y agoThere's also hackerne.ws which some guy pointed to the HN server's IP at some point http://www.google.com/#q=site:hackerne.ws http://www.google.com/#q=site:hackerne.ws Just changing HN so it only responds to Host: news.ycombinator.com would probably be the best solution.