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Re:A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings by fluidcruft on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:40PM (#39424237)
Wouldn't the defense be to delist and starve/block the google crawlers? Gaming google rankings is a waste of time if it's not there.
Re:A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings by EarthLaunch on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:53PM (#39424358)
The new way to build communities: SE-anti-O. Trying to rank as low as possible. Things will flip and sites will try to be uncrawlable to Google. I guess it's already happened with Discord.
Re:A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings by CableNinja on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:31AM (#39431641)
You just gave me an idea for a fun project (like i need more projects!). I use openresty for my webserver, which has lua already built in. Might be fun to see if i can just hog up a crawler instance indefinitely by generating fake pages and links that just go back to make a new fake page and link and takes the crawler in circles that it thinks are unique