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Probably because we restrict their crawlers. But this is an excellent side effect, because the last thing I want is traffic from Google searches.
by pg 13y ago
Probably because we restrict their crawlers. But this is an excellent side effect, because the last thing I want is traffic from Google searches.
- danso 13y agoAhh...my first guess was that every hyperlink was just nofollow, but I see HN discussion threads come up fairly frequently in Google searches (on technical topics)
- derrida 13y agoIf you really want to make it difficult for people to find this place, an idea might be to raise the technical threshold required to view it: serve it on telnet like a BBS-era board, or run it as a Tor hidden service, or better yet: both! It might be a bad idea for some reason I cannot conceive of right now.
- soneca 13y agoOne thing is not want people wondering around, looking for a quick random answer, as this site is pretty much about community. Other is make it difficult to access by a random, specific criteria, such as technical hability. Yes, I am no tech hacker, never used Tor, but I try to be part of this community as valuable member. I think community is about aligning interests, not an exclusivist club.