[HN Gopher] Wikivoyage Has Disappeared from DuckDuckGo
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       Wikivoyage Has Disappeared from DuckDuckGo
        
       Author : gsa
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-10-26 21:51 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (gaganpreet.in)
        
       | ChuckMcM wrote:
       | From the article -- _What concerns me is how obscurely the
       | results have disappeared from three search engines, which also
       | happen to command a fair share of the market after Google._
       | 
       | What the author really means is "they have disappeared from the
       | only other English language index in the US." Yandex, an English
       | language index hosted in Russia returns the wikivoyage queries as
       | expected.
       | 
       | If I were to hazard a guess (and I am guessing here) the answer
       | is here (also in the article): _The first result links directly
       | to Wikitravel. Wikitravel is the original project and a schism in
       | the project resulted in the creation of Wikivoyage, ..._
       | 
       | Based on this piece of information I would guess that Wikitravel
       | sent Bing a DMCA take down notice telling them that Wikivoyage
       | infringed on their copyrighted material. And as a result
       | Wikivoyage was de-indexed from general results.
        
         | cjensen wrote:
         | Wikitravel does not have any copyrights to anything, so I would
         | hope not. It's all contributor-created content licensed under
         | CC-by-SA which is free to copy under certain terms.
         | 
         | More importantly, Wikitravel is basically a dead man walking,
         | and Wikivoyage is a living project.
        
       | mivade wrote:
       | The bang syntax works though: `!wv malta` sends me to the
       | Wikivoyage page on Malta.
        
       | bunnyfoofoo wrote:
       | Yeah, it's horrible. If anyone has a way to get in touch with
       | DDG, that'd be great.
       | 
       | I've been using !sp to get startpage results with wikivoyage
       | queries.
        
         | sct202 wrote:
         | I'm not sure if you can do it on behalf of a website, but Bing
         | Webmaster Support has been pretty responsive in my experience
         | with my own domains, like an actual person emailed me back
         | after a couple days. And since Bing seems to feed a lot of
         | DDG's index, if it gets back in Bing it will probably also go
         | back to normal in DDG.
        
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