On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 7:21 PM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/22 18:59, B 9 wrote: > > On a tangent: I need to work on my searching skills. It occurred to me a > > while ago that the Tandy 200 schematic looked like the RTS/CTS lines > > were fully wired, but when I searched for things like "model 100 serial > > port rts cts", I never saw that page... Oh! Wait. The problem may have > > been that I was googling with DuckDuckGo. I'm able to get bitchin100.com > > <http://bitchin100.com> as the first result when I search for "model > 100 > > uart", but only on Google. > > > I have noticed this for probably 2 or more years now. I've been meaning > to say something but never did. It's like bitchin100 is blacklisted on > DDG, (and thus, probably on Bing too). Not only do none of the wiki > pages show up, even if you search for literally "bitchin100.com", you > can scroll for pages and pages of results forever and never get a single > link to any bitchin100.com url, only references to it in other pages, > mostly archived mail list posts on Narkive. > > I don't know. I only ever search on Google. The progression for me was Gopher, then Altavista, Yahoo, and now Google. Each better than the last, haven't felt any compelling need to switch again. Privacy? That ship has sailed, went into orbit, crashed into the an asteroid, merged with alien spores and is sentient. And DDG/Bing already don't like me, so... Maybe Dreamhost IPs are the issue? As to spammers, some spam was loaded onto the wiki at some point, but it wasn't there very long and I cleaned it up. I think it probably predates DDG and Bing, and Google has never cared. But that spam attack is why I make accounts upon request from members. URL rewriting... I could do that. But I don't see how it would help. I cannot think of a URL scheme that you could easily infer article titles. Most of Bitchin100 is the wiki. To link, I type bitchin100.com/wiki into my url bar, then search in the mediawiki search, find the result, and then copy and paste the URL. "tandy.wiki/REX" Most of the articles on bitchin100 have longer titles. B100 links are like bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Model_100_Serial_Interface rewriting I guess could skip the "wiki/index.php?title=" boilerplate. But you'd still need memorize the exact article title... 9/10 I'd end up having to search anyway... so I don't see the difference. Here's an interesting article on Bing/DDG https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/03/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/ Sounds like Bing is the way to get your site into DDG. -- John.
