In which case, he should add:
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">
to the html head of every page.
(I have to say, that's a smart way of avoiding any Eternal Septembering, but it'd be a shame. I often use Google to find old HN threads that I vaguely remember from months or years ago.)
(Google's search is often better for this purpose as it has features like synonym/typo fixing and as it indexes entire pages lets you match keywords across entire threads: hnsearch is myopic on individual posts.)
Even sites with good search functions are often still way outclassed by google search with "site:..."—and most sites don't have good search functions...
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I found this old thread, where pg had blocked most of the Google bots, and it caused Google to think the site was down:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661
Could be a similar issue? I'll take a look.
pg also commented that he doesn't want traffic from Google anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808990
In which case, he should add: <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> to the html head of every page.
(I have to say, that's a smart way of avoiding any Eternal Septembering, but it'd be a shame. I often use Google to find old HN threads that I vaguely remember from months or years ago.)
you may want to consider using hnsearch.
(Google's search is often better for this purpose as it has features like synonym/typo fixing and as it indexes entire pages lets you match keywords across entire threads: hnsearch is myopic on individual posts.)
Yup...
Even sites with good search functions are often still way outclassed by google search with "site:..."—and most sites don't have good search functions...