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Gotcha--thanks, Paul. I'm about to get on a plane, but we'll get this figured out where we're not sending as much hostload toward HN.

ashishgandhi 15y ago
Does that mean at Google you can manually set the system to treat different sites differently? I don't mean the ranking but other aspects - like you guys blacklisted some domains which produce low quality content in wholesale. (I don't know if the algorithm was tweaked to detect and filter such sources or if it was a manual thing.)
- Kiall 15y ago
  No, It sounds like @pg has blocked google bot via a firewall, So as far as google's automated systems are concerned, hacker news was shutdown and thus removed from the index. I believe Matt is simply offering help/advice on figuring out the best solution for HN.
- seabee 15y ago
  Does that mean at Google you can manually set the system to treat different sites differently? Webmaster Tools has a crawl rate slider which operate on a site-by-site basis, and that's existed for quite a while now. If you're asking if they can manually boost a site's ranking, hopefully that isn't what's being suggested.
wgx 15y ago
If only we could all get our Google woes fixed in such a manner.
- metaprinter 15y ago
  seriously. i can't get a hospital to show up in google maps... no human for me to talk to. HN is number 4 instead of 1 google page one, they're right on it.
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  - petercooper 15y ago
    This is why I don't understand the anti-promotion crowd who think promoting oneself and building an audience is a bad thing. Having the implicit threat of an audience you can address is a major lever to getting decent service nowadays.
    - davidw 15y ago
      I'm certainly not against promoting myself where I think some attention is merited, but ultimately that kind of thing is close to a zero sum game in that the amount of 'famous' people is fairly limited.
  - Mamady 15y ago
    Bad PR always seems to get instant action - it's more damage control than anything else. If you have an audience, you have PR power.
  - officemonkey 15y ago
    Which hospital? Seems like this thread has at least one pair of google-eyeballs looking at it.
    - metaprinter 15y ago
      i'd rather not drop the name here. but it's a verified listing and i've used the "report a problem" 3 times now. If they're not checking that... :(
  - kenjackson 15y ago
    You can fix this yourself. In the lower-right corner of Google Maps there is a tiny link that says, "Edit in Google Map Maker". Click this link and you can edit Google Maps. Your edits get sent to Google and they'll approve/deny it in typically a few days.

ashishgandhi 15y ago

Does that mean at Google you can manually set the system to treat different sites differently? I don't mean the ranking but other aspects - like you guys blacklisted some domains which produce low quality content in wholesale. (I don't know if the algorithm was tweaked to detect and filter such sources or if it was a manual thing.)

Kiall 15y ago
No, It sounds like @pg has blocked google bot via a firewall, So as far as google's automated systems are concerned, hacker news was shutdown and thus removed from the index. I believe Matt is simply offering help/advice on figuring out the best solution for HN.
seabee 15y ago
Does that mean at Google you can manually set the system to treat different sites differently? Webmaster Tools has a crawl rate slider which operate on a site-by-site basis, and that's existed for quite a while now. If you're asking if they can manually boost a site's ranking, hopefully that isn't what's being suggested.

wgx 15y ago

If only we could all get our Google woes fixed in such a manner.

metaprinter 15y ago
seriously. i can't get a hospital to show up in google maps... no human for me to talk to. HN is number 4 instead of 1 google page one, they're right on it.
- deleted 15y ago
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- petercooper 15y ago
  This is why I don't understand the anti-promotion crowd who think promoting oneself and building an audience is a bad thing. Having the implicit threat of an audience you can address is a major lever to getting decent service nowadays.
  - davidw 15y ago
    I'm certainly not against promoting myself where I think some attention is merited, but ultimately that kind of thing is close to a zero sum game in that the amount of 'famous' people is fairly limited.
- Mamady 15y ago
  Bad PR always seems to get instant action - it's more damage control than anything else. If you have an audience, you have PR power.
- officemonkey 15y ago
  Which hospital? Seems like this thread has at least one pair of google-eyeballs looking at it.
  - metaprinter 15y ago
    i'd rather not drop the name here. but it's a verified listing and i've used the "report a problem" 3 times now. If they're not checking that... :(
- kenjackson 15y ago
  You can fix this yourself. In the lower-right corner of Google Maps there is a tiny link that says, "Edit in Google Map Maker". Click this link and you can edit Google Maps. Your edits get sent to Google and they'll approve/deny it in typically a few days.