The YouTube-DL website notably does not come up in those search results, it's their GitHub page that does. The website does appear in the sidebar, because it pulls the sidebar data from Wikipedia, and YouTube-DL's Wikipedia page does come up.

Note that if you do a google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube-dl) their website is the first result.

Both the website and the GitHub are top two results at my end, in India.

Their main website is not coming up here (sweden). Only the github and some random fringe-sites, obvious scams and readthedocs.

Interesting, mine are github, videohelp.com, and then ottverse. I imagine that adds credence to the theory that it's because of Bing's index removing them - maybe they use a different index in India?

Not anymore. I'm also using it in India, the original website is no longer listed. Top result is the repo

Still same here. It even has a dedicated snippet.

https://ibb.co/tZJcB1M

Same here in Germany

Not sure what you mean. Someone on urban dictionary defines blogspam as

> A blog where the author paraphrases or copies from the original article/webpage in an attempt to increase his or her own traffic.

Another person as

> loaded with so much foreign material, it refuses to function properly

Since neither of those fit, I guess you mean it more like a random blog that thw owners 'spam' everywhere such as onto link collectors like HN?

Torrentfreak is quite the opposite of that, if that's what you were accusing them of in the first place. One could say that your comment's "headline is outright false"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorrentFreak

the complaint in the article is around the serach engine's "search within site" feature.

Compare the following two:

- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepiratebay.org&t=h_&ia=we...

- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com&t=h_&ia=web