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Re:Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It by buggy_code on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @03:49PM (#617482)
Can you explain this more? Why would HN comments vanish? Doesn't google follow all links?
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Re:Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It by aristus on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @03:53PM (#617493)
HN was not designed with SEO and linkage in mind -- after a while pages can become "orphaned" after they get pushed down by new stuff. No search engine follows all links. As a practical matter they generally give up after 6-8 links away from the home page.
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Re:Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It by ntoshev on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @04:11PM (#617522)
Google search for this site still returns years old results:

http://www.google.bg/search?q=site:http://news.ycombinator.c...

(for better results try "800 days ago" with quotes, HN strips them for some reason)

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Re:Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It by Alex3917 on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @04:01PM (#617512)
Actually today Google seems to be indexing most of the site. But usually when I do searches like:

site:news.ycombinator.com alex3917 "rule of thumb"

Only half of those posts show up, and to find the rest I need to use searchyc.com

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Re:Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It by inerte on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @03:56PM (#617504)
Personal anecdote, I have no idea if it's 100% related to OP:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576727

Now google today for "80-19-1"... it's not even on the second page (and it was the 3rd result to me too previously).

I guess OP's point is that Google is "happy" with fresh content, puts it on the front page, then the evil algorithms ;) push it farther.

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