Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I don't know if it still happens, but Google used to have an issue that I would see in Verbatim mode whereby non-Wikipedia domains would rank as particular Wikipedia pages by redirecting to Wikipedia. I can't seem to replicate it now, so it might be resolved or vary from country to country.

I posted about it at the time, but no one seemed to be able to replicate it:

https://x.com/jfozonx/status/1570710776540958723

Always wondered how much traffic those domains were accumulating. Even though it was an edge case, it must've been quite a lot in aggregate.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: