Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
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Maybe they should have used a name that wasn't already taken...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set
Lol, that's what I thought this was about too.
Why don't these people/companies think about how hard it will be to search for their $thing !?
Why don't these people/companies think about how hard it will be to search for their $thing !?
Google search has generally rotted. Can't get promoted for maintenance.
That’s best case scenario. Worst case is that they’re censoring the internet on a massive scale but have rolled it out slowly enough that no one noticed
They are. There’s been a bunch of studies already showing how Google skews its results to align with oligarch interests.
https://imgur.com/a/OS7P9jh
Seems working for me.
In the AI overview yeah, but do you see the sites below? I wonder if it's being tuned to prefer generating its own "list of X" implementations and downranking other peoples' lists.
Can confirm that I can also reproduce this. Interesting.
I got 2300 results. DuckDuckGo Uses google. Google is very personalised. They use many dirty tricks to give personalised results. Use another box and check the results again.
Doesn't DDG use Bing?
Are any of those results a list of public atproto relays?
Yes.
Could you link it? Curious to see how buried it is for me. Personalization is one thing but on my results I'm getting Tor relays, Nostr relays, IPFS relays, and Fediverse relays and I haven't yet seen a list of atproto relays. I'm on like page 6 now.
Use incognito/private browsing mode to get a genuine sense of whether something isn’t in the index or whether google decides that even though you’re asking for it you probably don’t want it.
I can reproduce the same in incognito mode.
https://firehose.directory/robots.txt isn't one, but comes up in Google despite that.
https://atproto.at/robots.txt is good and findable with a direct search
https://atproto.wiki/robots.txt is empty but findable on Google.
https://pulsar.feeds.blue/robots.txt is 404 and thus not indexed by Google.
https://leaflet.pub/robots.txt is good. A logged in google search for this finds this for me.
Tell the people at https://pulsar.feeds.blue to fix their robots.txt if they want to get indexed.
https://atproto.at/robots.txt is good and findable with a direct search
https://atproto.wiki/robots.txt is empty but findable on Google.
https://pulsar.feeds.blue/robots.txt is 404 and thus not indexed by Google.
https://leaflet.pub/robots.txt is good. A logged in google search for this finds this for me.
Tell the people at https://pulsar.feeds.blue to fix their robots.txt if they want to get indexed.
1. https://firehose.directory
2. https://atproto.at/relays
3. https://atproto.wiki/en/wiki/reference/core-architecture/relay
4. https://pulsar.feeds.blue
5. https://leaflet.pub/12022731-ae4f-4a13-9f7a-5738b7a83c2e
Of those results, Google only has 3, the only one on the list that... doesn't have a list of public atproto relays. None of the other sites are present anywhere. Trying not to assume malice instead of incompetence here, but it's really ironic that one of the ecosystems with the strongest ties to the open web, with users creating dozens of new websites every week, isn't getting indexed.