[HN Gopher] Wikivoyage Has Disappeared from DuckDuckGo ___________________________________________________________________ Wikivoyage Has Disappeared from DuckDuckGo Author : gsa Score : 28 points Date : 2021-10-26 21:51 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (gaganpreet.in) (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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-26 23:00 UTC)