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Re:Backing Up Spotify by iknowstuff on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:42PM (#46340787)
In that vein, I am trying to find out why searching for

    alextud popcorntime
which should trivially yield http://github.com/alextud/PopcornTimeTV results in anything but that one particular URL in every search engine: Google, Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Bing

They even find a fork of that particular repo, which in turn links back to it, but refuse to show the result I want. Have't found any DMCA notices. What is going on?

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by ticoombs on Saturday December 20, 2025 @08:47PM (#46341498)
They have marked the repo as noindex (or GitHub is forcing a noindex header).

Its returning a noindex flag so every serp is correctly doing what the repo has been asked.

That is... except for brave! I checked on my searx instance and it still showed up in brave's results

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by ZeWaka on Saturday December 20, 2025 @08:48PM (#46341517)
Very interesting. The security page does show up on kagi at #6.

I wonder if GitHub flags it to not be indexed or something.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by Mythli on Sunday December 21, 2025 @10:56AM (#46345682)
Try Yandex search, trust me later.

It has 0 censorship - regarding pirated content at least.

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