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Can you explain this more? Why would HN comments vanish? Doesn't google follow all links?
by buggy_code 17y ago
Can you explain this more? Why would HN comments vanish? Doesn't google follow all links?
- aristus 17y agoHN was not designed with SEO and linkage in mind -- after a while pages can become "orphaned" after they get pushed down by new stuff. No search engine follows all links. As a practical matter they generally give up after 6-8 links away from the home page.
- ntoshev 17y agoGoogle search for this site still returns years old results: http://www.google.bg/search?q=site:http://news.ycombinator.com/+800+days+ago http://www.google.bg/search?q=site:http://news.ycombinator.c... (for better results try "800 days ago" with quotes, HN strips them for some reason)
- inerte 17y agoPersonal anecdote, I have no idea if it's 100% related to OP: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576727 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576727 Now google today for "80-19-1"... it's not even on the second page (and it was the 3rd result to me too previously). I guess OP's point is that Google is "happy" with fresh content, puts it on the front page, then the evil algorithms ;) push it farther.
- Alex3917 17y agoActually today Google seems to be indexing most of the site. But usually when I do searches like: site:news.ycombinator.com alex3917 "rule of thumb" Only half of those posts show up, and to find the rest I need to use searchyc.com