Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

26 pointsby iameli2 hours ago7 comments

entropyie40 minutes ago
Maybe they should have used a name that wasn't already taken...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set
- UI_at_80x2410 minutes ago
  Lol, that's what I thought this was about too.
  Why don't these people/companies think about how hard it will be to search for their $thing !?
wmfan hour ago
Google search has generally rotted. Can't get promoted for maintenance.
- therobots927an hour ago
  That’s best case scenario. Worst case is that they’re censoring the internet on a massive scale but have rolled it out slowly enough that no one noticed
  - bilbo-b-baggins37 minutes ago
    They are. There’s been a bunch of studies already showing how Google skews its results to align with oligarch interests.
whateverboatan hour ago
https://imgur.com/a/OS7P9jh Seems working for me.
- iamelian hour ago
  In the AI overview yeah, but do you see the sites below? I wonder if it's being tuned to prefer generating its own "list of X" implementations and downranking other peoples' lists.
EnglishMobsteran hour ago
Can confirm that I can also reproduce this. Interesting.
runningmike2 hours ago
I got 2300 results. DuckDuckGo Uses google. Google is very personalised. They use many dirty tricks to give personalised results. Use another box and check the results again.
- Peanuts99an hour ago
  Doesn't DDG use Bing?
- iameli2 hours ago
  Are any of those results a list of public atproto relays?
  - runningmike2 hours ago
    Yes.
    iameli2 hours ago
    Could you link it? Curious to see how buried it is for me. Personalization is one thing but on my results I'm getting Tor relays, Nostr relays, IPFS relays, and Fediverse relays and I haven't yet seen a list of atproto relays. I'm on like page 6 now.
seanhunter2 hours ago
Use incognito/private browsing mode to get a genuine sense of whether something isn’t in the index or whether google decides that even though you’re asking for it you probably don’t want it.
- danabramovan hour ago
  I can reproduce the same in incognito mode.
fragmedean hour ago
https://firehose.directory/robots.txt isn't one, but comes up in Google despite that.
https://atproto.at/robots.txt is good and findable with a direct search
https://atproto.wiki/robots.txt is empty but findable on Google.
https://pulsar.feeds.blue/robots.txt is 404 and thus not indexed by Google.
https://leaflet.pub/robots.txt is good. A logged in google search for this finds this for me.
Tell the people at https://pulsar.feeds.blue to fix their robots.txt if they want to get indexed.