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The first link I get when I searched for "putty" was `putty.org` which, according to the footer: "The PuTTY project or its authors have never owned this domain,

The first link I get when I searched for "putty" was `putty.org` which, according to the footer: "The PuTTY project or its authors have never owned this domain, registered it, or purchased it." Nevertheless, I can't consider relying on probabilistic algorithms controlled by 3rd parties to be a wise strategy. Also, these days, after decades of habit building and a rise in awareness about scam-related stuff, I think people expect to see the name of the project early on in the URL, not in 7th position as it is currently.

swah 1y ago
My first 3 matches are https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht..., https://www.putty.org/ https://www.putty.org/ and https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
- JdeBP 1y ago
  putty.org's page ranking used to be higher. * https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282 https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282 I suspect that the recent kerfuffle motivated people to finally clean out bogus hyperlinks that casually listed putty.org as the download site, which would have been contributing to inflated page rank up to that point. I found one on a wiki and fixed it, myself, and I'm sure that I was not the only person who went looking.
  - whizzter 1y ago
    It's not inconceivable that some Googlers reads here or otherwise and took note to punish that site.
    - reader9274 1y ago
      Hmm why punish that site?
      - whizzter 1y ago
        Because it's affiliated with _another_ ssh client and there seems to have been various levels of shadyness over time, see previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328
- pandemic_region 1y ago
  Assuming he owns the green end.org.uk domain, why not letting people land on putty.greenend.org.uk ?
  - JdeBP 1y ago
    Your assumption is false, so the question is without proper foundation. GreenEnd's Chiark is owned by Ian Jackson. Simon Tatham is a user on the system, with a home directory. One of a list of such users, including Rachel Coleman and Matthew Garrett.
sambull 1y ago
> I can't consider relying on probabilistic algorithms controlled by 3rd parties to be a wise strategy. That's pretty much all of the AI industry and clients.
- nicce 1y ago
  Pretty much how the whole world works and why ads are multi-trillion dollar business.
1970-01-01 1y ago
Google.com > putty > I'm feeling lucky > https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
herf 1y ago
Google right now lists the title of putty.org as "PuTTY", even though right now this text is only in the footer. Up until August I guess it provided a download link, but the title was not "PuTTY".
nelox 1y ago
I can sell you some AdWords to solve it.

swah 1y ago

My first 3 matches are https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht..., https://www.putty.org/ https://www.putty.org/ and https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

JdeBP 1y ago
putty.org's page ranking used to be higher. * https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282 https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282 I suspect that the recent kerfuffle motivated people to finally clean out bogus hyperlinks that casually listed putty.org as the download site, which would have been contributing to inflated page rank up to that point. I found one on a wiki and fixed it, myself, and I'm sure that I was not the only person who went looking.
- whizzter 1y ago
  It's not inconceivable that some Googlers reads here or otherwise and took note to punish that site.
  - reader9274 1y ago
    Hmm why punish that site?
    - whizzter 1y ago
      Because it's affiliated with _another_ ssh client and there seems to have been various levels of shadyness over time, see previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328
pandemic_region 1y ago
Assuming he owns the green end.org.uk domain, why not letting people land on putty.greenend.org.uk ?
- JdeBP 1y ago
  Your assumption is false, so the question is without proper foundation. GreenEnd's Chiark is owned by Ian Jackson. Simon Tatham is a user on the system, with a home directory. One of a list of such users, including Rachel Coleman and Matthew Garrett.

sambull 1y ago

> I can't consider relying on probabilistic algorithms controlled by 3rd parties to be a wise strategy. That's pretty much all of the AI industry and clients.

nicce 1y ago
Pretty much how the whole world works and why ads are multi-trillion dollar business.

1970-01-01 1y ago

Google.com > putty > I'm feeling lucky > https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

herf 1y ago

Google right now lists the title of putty.org as "PuTTY", even though right now this text is only in the footer. Up until August I guess it provided a download link, but the title was not "PuTTY".

nelox 1y ago

I can sell you some AdWords to solve it.