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swah 5 days ago

My first 3 matches are https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht..., https://www.putty.org/ and https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

JdeBP 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

putty.org's page ranking used to be higher.

* https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282

I suspect that the recent kerfuffle motivated people to finally clean out bogus hyperlinks that casually listed putty.org as the download site, which would have been contributing to inflated page rank up to that point. I found one on a wiki and fixed it, myself, and I'm sure that I was not the only person who went looking.

whizzter 5 days ago | parent [-]

It's not inconceivable that some Googlers reads here or otherwise and took note to punish that site.

reader9274 5 days ago | parent [-]

Hmm why punish that site?

whizzter 5 days ago | parent [-]

Because it's affiliated with _another_ ssh client and there seems to have been various levels of shadyness over time, see previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328

pandemic_region 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Assuming he owns the green end.org.uk domain, why not letting people land on putty.greenend.org.uk ?

JdeBP 5 days ago | parent [-]

Your assumption is false, so the question is without proper foundation. GreenEnd's Chiark is owned by Ian Jackson. Simon Tatham is a user on the system, with a home directory. One of a list of such users, including Rachel Coleman and Matthew Garrett.