It's not inconceivable that some Googlers reads here or otherwise and took note to punish that site.
Re:PuTTY has a new website
by reader9274 on Saturday August 16, 2025 @10:36AM
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Hmm why punish that site?
Because it's affiliated with _another_ ssh client and there seems to have been various levels of shadyness over time, see previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328
* https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282
I suspect that the recent kerfuffle motivated people to finally clean out bogus hyperlinks that casually listed putty.org as the download site, which would have been contributing to inflated page rank up to that point. I found one on a wiki and fixed it, myself, and I'm sure that I was not the only person who went looking.