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How do you determine what makes something an "official site"? I see it with the "Hacker News" search here, and with Twilio for example, but not with Fog Creek o
by duck 15y ago
How do you determine what makes something an "official site"? I see it with the "Hacker News" search here, and with Twilio for example, but not with Fog Creek or Ford.
You guys keep doing awesome work Gabriel, keep it up!
- ______ 15y agoI am curious about this too. Nothing in the support center directly addresses this -- perhaps a brief explanation would be good to add there?
- epi0Bauqu 15y agoWe do this often through our 0-click sources, e.g. Wikipedia though there is an algorithmic component as well. However, we try not to have false positives so it is clamped down pretty tight.
- Wilya 15y agoI thought I had heard that they looked at the Url/Website field on the Wikipedia page for the company, but it would work for Fog Creek too. Strange. DBpedia [1], for example, seems to have nicely formatted dumps of all infoboxes. [1] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Datasets http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Datasets