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In my opinion this is even worse when searching for GitHub issues on Google. I prefer searching for issues on Google but since last year there are so many resul
by bttger 5y ago
In my opinion this is even worse when searching for GitHub issues on Google. I prefer searching for issues on Google but since last year there are so many results of websites that show nothing else than crawled GitHub issues. No idea why they are higher ranked than the original GitHub issues. These results don't link to the original issue on GitHub, are often outdated, have bad UX (e.g. the code snippets), and don't allow participating in the discussion.
- PhantomGremlin 5y agoNo idea why they are higher ranked than the original GitHub issues. Not to be too cynical about it, but who serves the ads on those sites? If it's Google Ads, then I think you have your answer as to why they are higher ranked.
- nomilk 5y agoGenuinely curious to know now..
- onionisafruit 5y agoMy theory is github is getting down ranked due to performance. When you view an issue on github the page gets built from mysql queries and can be slow for large issues. gitmemory and the others just serve the content they scraped, so they load much faster.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoSeems like they would ignore that "performance" parameter for major information sites like github/reddit/stack/etc
- HWR_14 5y agoOr it could be because Google dislikes MS owning so much developer mindspace.
- tessie4 5y agoYou can use site: or inurl: (or a combination) to constrain the search to GitHub.
- wanderer_ 5y agoOften just putting the site name (e.g. "github.com") at the end of the query is enough to do that for me.