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What is with this blogspam? YouTube-DL comes up just fine in search results (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube-dl&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube

What is with this blogspam? YouTube-DL comes up just fine in search results (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube-dl&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube-dl&t=h_&ia=web). So does Pirate Bay (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pirate+bay&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pirate+bay&t=h_&ia=web). The headline is outright false.

Flollop 5y ago
the complaint in the article is around the serach engine's "search within site" feature. Compare the following two: - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepiratebay.org&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepiratebay.org&t=h_&ia=we... - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com&t=h_&ia=web
miloignis 5y ago
The YouTube-DL website notably does not come up in those search results, it's their GitHub page that does. The website does appear in the sidebar, because it pulls the sidebar data from Wikipedia, and YouTube-DL's Wikipedia page does come up. Note that if you do a google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube-dl https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube-dl) their website is the first result.
- gigglesupstairs 5y ago
  Both the website and the GitHub are top two results at my end, in India.
  - miloignis 5y ago
    Interesting, mine are github, videohelp.com, and then ottverse. I imagine that adds credence to the theory that it's because of Bing's index removing them - maybe they use a different index in India?
  - omgmajk 5y ago
    Their main website is not coming up here (sweden). Only the github and some random fringe-sites, obvious scams and readthedocs.
  - ajyotirmay 5y ago
    Not anymore. I'm also using it in India, the original website is no longer listed. Top result is the repo
    - gigglesupstairs 5y ago
      Still same here. It even has a dedicated snippet. https://ibb.co/tZJcB1M https://ibb.co/tZJcB1M
  - itsTyrion 5y ago
    Same here in Germany
lucb1e 5y ago
Not sure what you mean. Someone on urban dictionary defines blogspam as > A blog where the author paraphrases or copies from the original article/webpage in an attempt to increase his or her own traffic. Another person as > loaded with so much foreign material, it refuses to function properly Since neither of those fit, I guess you mean it more like a random blog that thw owners 'spam' everywhere such as onto link collectors like HN? Torrentfreak is quite the opposite of that, if that's what you were accusing them of in the first place. One could say that your comment's "headline is outright false"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorrentFreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorrentFreak

Flollop 5y ago

the complaint in the article is around the serach engine's "search within site" feature. Compare the following two: - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepiratebay.org&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepiratebay.org&t=h_&ia=we... - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com&t=h_&ia=web

miloignis 5y ago

The YouTube-DL website notably does not come up in those search results, it's their GitHub page that does. The website does appear in the sidebar, because it pulls the sidebar data from Wikipedia, and YouTube-DL's Wikipedia page does come up. Note that if you do a google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube-dl https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube-dl) their website is the first result.

gigglesupstairs 5y ago
Both the website and the GitHub are top two results at my end, in India.
- miloignis 5y ago
  Interesting, mine are github, videohelp.com, and then ottverse. I imagine that adds credence to the theory that it's because of Bing's index removing them - maybe they use a different index in India?
- omgmajk 5y ago
  Their main website is not coming up here (sweden). Only the github and some random fringe-sites, obvious scams and readthedocs.
- ajyotirmay 5y ago
  Not anymore. I'm also using it in India, the original website is no longer listed. Top result is the repo
  - gigglesupstairs 5y ago
    Still same here. It even has a dedicated snippet. https://ibb.co/tZJcB1M https://ibb.co/tZJcB1M
- itsTyrion 5y ago
  Same here in Germany

lucb1e 5y ago

Not sure what you mean. Someone on urban dictionary defines blogspam as > A blog where the author paraphrases or copies from the original article/webpage in an attempt to increase his or her own traffic. Another person as > loaded with so much foreign material, it refuses to function properly Since neither of those fit, I guess you mean it more like a random blog that thw owners 'spam' everywhere such as onto link collectors like HN? Torrentfreak is quite the opposite of that, if that's what you were accusing them of in the first place. One could say that your comment's "headline is outright false"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorrentFreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorrentFreak