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JdeBP 5 days ago

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