Tell HN: HN is not the first result for “Hacker News” on DuckDuckGo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30747815

by behnamoh • 4 years ago

13 8 4 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Screenshot: https://prnt.sc/K_LtC9LMJTcB

5ESS• 4 years ago

It shouldn’t even be a popular website in the first place. Shady founder, shady company, poor product that abuses the user’s trust. you’re not helping the situation by advertising it for free.

behnamoh• 4 years ago

you’re not helping the situation by advertising it for free.

I disagree. the point here is that DDG misses what "hacker news" really is, not advertising a website.

wcchandler• 4 years ago

What are you talking about?

Gabe is a great person I’ve followed for a while now.

Dwolb• 4 years ago

Must be the case with all Bing-based search engines.

Anyone have the technical reasons? Would guess it’s structural (URL, title tags, H1).

throwthere• 4 years ago

DDG uses Bing https://www.bing.com/search?q=Hacker+news , but the bigger question may be isn’t second result good enough? You have very divergent definitions of “hacker” between people here and most of the rest of the population. Maybe most searches for hacker news actually want news about computer hackers? And knowing which one you mean takes context about who you are… the exact thing ddg is trying to get away from I think.

hlbjhblbljib• 4 years ago

Looks like a good ranking of results to me.

debesyla• 4 years ago

I'm sorry for my misunderstanding, but why is this interesting or important? news.ycombinator.com comes up as the second result just under the first one + at the side box, so it's not hidden or anything -- just some small difference between DDG and Bing/Google? Sorry, I'm just confused what interesting point am I missing... :(

matt_heimer• 4 years ago

Lack of SEO? A meta description would be a good start. Currently the generated description is:

Tell HN: HN is not the first result for “Hacker News” on DuckDuckGo

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