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Old 19th May 2023, 14:37   #1  |  Link
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Google no longer searches forum

For some reason, Google no longer returns results of forum search on eg
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avisynth site:forum.doom9.org
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=av...orum.doom9.org

or
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avisynth  site:https://forum.doom9.org
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=av...orum.doom9.org

Is it problem with Google, or with forum.



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This works,
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ukraine site:bbc.co.uk
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk...te%3Abbc.co.uk

EDIT: Perhaps forum has added some kind of "robots" thingy, preventing scanning of site.
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https://forum.doom9.org/robots.txt
https://developers.google.com/search...ots/robots_txt
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Thanks for that, Thundik81. [EDIT: I forgot how that robots thingy works, but remembered was 'robots' related]
It would then seem that GoogleBot has been denied access to search the D9, one wonders why that is.
Presumably then, you will never get any Doom9 forum hits when doing a google search.

Planned obsolescence ???
(If you are not already a Doom9 user, you will never [well hardly ever] find out that it exists)

EDIT: "Yandex Spider" and "BingBot" are currently scanning forum. (See Quick Links/Who's online).
Why the hatin' on Google, but not Yandex nor Bing ?
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I was also attempting to use the Google Search Engine to search the forum with short keyword and had the same issue. I don't think this robots.txt change is good.
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I always use google to search the forum.
Not only Google used to provide far better search results than the internal search inside the forum, but it was also how the overall majority of users came to Doom9 in the first place.
They searched something on the web related to encoding, Google provided topics in the forum as answers, they opened the related topics, found the replies and said "you know what? I'm gonna stick around, those people know what they're talking about".

Blocking Google from scanning the forum is a big mistake and will inevitably lead to a sharp fall in viewers/guests and an inevitable decline in new users...


p.s even the .net is blocking Google:

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avisynth  site:forum.doom9.net
returns nothing

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Thanks for that, Thundik81. [EDIT: I forgot how that robots thingy works, but remembered was 'robots' related]
It would then seem that GoogleBot has been denied access to search the D9, one wonders why that is.
http://forum.doom9.net/robots.txt
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Yeah I got that Balling. [Thundik81 already posted where to find it]
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one wonders why that is.
Meaning, Why was Google denied access by D9 glitterati.
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When I do a google search against "avisynth site:forum.doom9.net" I see the info that results were removed because of some DMCA claim,... which points to https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/10021144
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When I do a google search against "avisynth site:forum.doom9.net" I see the info that results were removed because of some DMCA claim,... which points to https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/10021144
Thanks for the useful info👍, Selur.
Now we understand why Yandex was not blocked by the forum admin(s):
Gluegow is a slave to the c0pyrite wh0r&$, but Yandex is not.😇
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When I do a google search against "avisynth site:forum.doom9.net" I see the info that results were removed because of some DMCA claim,... which points to https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/10021144
What browser were you using?
With Opera version 93.etc, both "avisynth site:forum.doom9.net" and "avisynth site:forum.doom9.org" return that mega-stupid mega-ugly mega-annoying fishertroll animated GIF🤮

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/...gned-by-DD00TS
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When I do a google search against "avisynth site:forum.doom9.net" I see the info that results were removed because of some DMCA claim,... which points to https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/10021144
That claim is 9 years old. Either indexing was broken for all this time and you never noticed, or its not related.
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I last searched @ site:forum.doom9.org [.org only] about December, worked back then. [EDIT: I was inactive about Jan->March]

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That claim is 9 years old. Either indexing was broken for all this time and you never noticed, or its not related.
Astute observation.

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With Opera version 93.etc, both "avisynth site:forum.doom9.net" and "avisynth site:forum.doom9.org" return that mega-stupid mega-ugly mega-annoying fishertroll animated GIF
I'm using FireFox, and for the .net search, I could not see the DMCA message as was off the bottom of the page, required scrolling to see it.
(W10 settings/System/Display/Scale & Layout=150%, ALSO, I got FireFox at Zoom 150%, 4K monitor)
EDIT: And I love my SUPER MASSIVE <requires about:config editing> scroll bars, so easy to hit [clickme, twice].
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I last searched @ site:forum.doom9.org [.org only] about December, worked back then. [EDIT: I was inactive about Jan->March]
Wayback Machine is your friend:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https:/...org/robots.txt
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http://web.archive.org/web/202212240...org/robots.txt
then Santa Claus came to Doom9
http://web.archive.org/web/202212280...org/robots.txt
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As I understand doom9's robot.txt doesn't disallow Google searching the forum threads.

Strange that it doesn't show result from doom9, DMCA complains removes one link, not a whole site. Last DMCA I see was in 2021.

duckduckgo works, if I remember correctly they actually are using data from Google: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=avisynth+s...rg&t=h_&ia=web
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Thanx again Thundik81,
(And I just found out that my ISP is no longer blocking Wayback Machine.)
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duckduckgo works, if I remember correctly they actually are using data from Google
AFAIK data is from Microsoft Bing:
https://spreadprivacy.com/more-priva...-transparency/
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Using 'netstat -ano' or TcpView you can also see that Duckduckgo connects to Microsoft IP addresses when you perform a search.
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I don't know why google have banned us but I'm quite sure that disallowing "User-agent: Googlebot/Nutch-1.7" is not the problem (you can google it ). Just to be sure I've removed that restriction and will monitor the abuse of Nutch that we were hit with at that time as well as looking into why google doesn't like us anymore.
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Could it be a search algorithm update?
They had one in the second half of March
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I don't know why google have banned us but I'm quite sure that disallowing "User-agent: Googlebot/Nutch-1.7" is not the problem (you can google it ). Just to be sure I've removed that restriction and will monitor the abuse of Nutch that we were hit with at that time as well as looking into why google doesn't like us anymore.
I noticed that every time I searched previously it was actually the print pages not forum pages and only from .net mirror, that has no valid https cert, because the cert has no .net alternate name.

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I noticed that every time I searched previously it was actually the print pages not forum pages and only from .net mirror, that has no valid https cert, because the cert has no .net alternate name.
MOSTLY from the "printer-friendly archive", yes, but not always.
And in the better old days, G00gle also indexed the "semi-official" Doom9 mirrors by Koepi and Nic.
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