alt Hacker NewsGoogle giving Fandom powerful rankings bothers me too, since their intrusive ads clearly go against Google ranking factors.
Still, I'm glad for some competition. However, even after browsing their site, is contacting them the only way to get something up and running?
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That goes against Google's 2010 ranking factors. 2024 Google is all about pushing DoubleClick customers to the top of the front page.
One of the first sites I downrank in kagi is all the fandom sites. I don't outright ban them, sometimes they're all there is, but I try and make it so any other result shows up ahead of them
> However, even after browsing their site, is contacting them the only way to get something up and running?
Yes, per this post:
> I don’t think we would ever do a “self-service” thing where you could just sign up and immediately make a wiki. We want to do projects where we get to know the community, and closely support every wiki we host.
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> If you liked this and want to talk to me about wiki things, please come say hi[1]
Just as an example - the stardew valley offical wiki is massive and complete, and nearly everyone uses that, but google still directs users to the fandom site for almost any specific search. Its one of the main things that has led me to think that using Google gives far less useful information than competitors.