logoalt Hacker News

iknowstuff • yesterday at 11:42 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

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?

Replies

ticoombs • today at 1:47 AM

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

Mythli • today at 3:56 PM

Try Yandex search, trust me later.

It has 0 censorship - regarding pirated content at least.

ZeWaka • today at 1:48 AM

Very interesting. The security page does show up on kagi at #6.

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