[bubblewand]

Yeah, Google stopped even trying to usefully index most of the web around ‘08 or ‘09 or so. Was super obvious when it happened and it’s been that way ever since. Your GitHub is up there because it’s a blessed website, your personal site isn’t and will struggle mightily to rank even when you search exact, unusual phrases on it, if it’s like most of the rest of the Web on Google these days.

Get more traffic (make sure google analytics sees it, IDK but that probably matters because monopoly) and it might help.

Most of the other indices aren’t much better. Turns out fighting spam is expensive, easier to just do a combo of boosting really big sites and blessed spammers that use your ad network.

[huijzer]

> Turns out fighting spam is expensive, easier to just do a combo of boosting really big sites and blessed spammers that use your ad network.

Plus based on the results it’s not entirely clear that only the ad part are ads. Especially around certain topics where money is involved, the Google first page is often showing companies that could profit from traffic

[bubblewand]

Well, right, a separate problem is that some notable amount of Google's revenue comes from fooling people into thinking that ads are "natural" search results. To include an extortion racket where you have to pay for ad placement for your own exact company and product names so competitors don't get ads-masquerading-as-results placed above you. Plus this is a super-helpful feature to scammers, like it's basically scam enablement trust-laundering as a service. If we had a functioning government and market guardrails the FTC would have been all over them for this many years ago, besides which they'd long ago have been broken up into several separate companies and denied a bunch of the acquisitions they've performed.

[LtWorf]

I moved my projects on codeberg and the first results in still the locked github project with the link to the new one.

[tracker1]

I would suggest just using Github Pages for the "official" site, for similar reasons... unless you really need interactive parts that require client-server... in which case you can maybe split between pages and your own domain. Just a thought.

[sonofhans]

This is how they get you, literally. “Too bad we’ve poisoned the public water source. How about if you buy water from us?”