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by signorovitch 105 days ago
> This isn't an SEO problem. This is a Google problem.

I've tested on a few of the big search engines, and nanoclaw.dev is never in the first page.

Gemini was also unable to find the .dev, even in "Research Mode." The only way I was able to get a direct link to nanoclaw.dev was with chatgpt, which found it by scraping the GitHub (it also spat out links to a couple of other copies it found from google.)

Seems this is a wider SEO issue, one which infiltrates even the technology supposed to replace it.
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pbmonster 104 days ago
> Gemini was also unable to find the .dev, even in "Research Mode."

Unsurprisingly, right? Gemini just uses the same back end as Google itself, which - according to OP - doesn't list his site on page 1, not page 2 and not page 5.

Depending on the prompt, it should have gotten the link from the github, but that's like an indirect hint from a secondary source, it probably ranks the Google index quite highly when it does research.

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