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by anenefan 415 days ago
Problem - unfortunate site name / link.

It's probably among a very small handful of urls (that are active and not dubious) I have popped into a search engine like duckduckgo and get other sites first with no hit on the actual url I entered into the search bar. That is not a good thing.

Root'd comes up very prominently. Then there's software rootdb and I threw into the query - forum and IT and still getting top results for Root'd and a French support area for rootdb ... followed other rootdb support areas.

Google I tested last so it probably had enough from tracking me to the German site to throw up the right result after adding IT and forum to the query but not the url on its own where for me atm the linkedin announcement is the third result and hacker news entry today is seventh.

Since there seems to be a major project rootdb - it's also going to throw confusion to would be visitors who might have been looking for a suitable forum.