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Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

Point of information.

From that doc:

A.9.3 Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name?

No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into google.com and we're the first link returned) ...

Searching for "putty ssh" on both DDG and Google now return putty.org as their top result.

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It's not even on the screen for me when searching "putty"

1: putty.org

2: "People also ask, What is putty and why is it used?" then 4 other questions about the material putty taking up most of the page

3: Videos "How to use Putty to SSH on Windows"

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4. Video "How to Use Putty?"

5: Video "How to SSH Without a Password with Putty"

6: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ the actual site

This is definitely something that should be raised to the putty team. But with how the rest of the text is worded, I doubt that will change their mind.

Huh weird, usually top 3 results are "sponsored" links serving malware.

Might be one of those weirdos using an ad blocker ;)

Really? You're telling me you weren't looking for softwaredownload.com free download software today?

Mojeek and brave return 1) putty.org, 2) official site; and additionally a snippet from wikipedia in a sidebar with a correct address.

How do we report disappointing search results to Google? (Does anyone know please?)

They don’t care if results are disappointing for you, they just want you to click more ads

... and when the results are junk, you go back to Google and so the KPI "time spent on Google" rises.

That's the problem when the metrics are focused on how the company is doing and not how the user is doing, but when there is barely any competition that is not dogshit you don't have to care about how the customer feels because they can't go anywhere anyway so you can feel free to extract the maximum profit from them.

That's also why Google, Facebook, Microsoft and OpenAI are all so hellbent on AI: they all want to be the one and only place that you interact with to get answers to your questions so that as much of your "eyeball time" as possible (and with it, ad income) stays in their respective walled gardens.

haha i swear for a super brief period of time they actually did have a little link if you ever travelled back to search results where you could feedback or filter the dumb sites... then someone was forced to re-read the company mandate and had to sign HR paperwork that now only evil

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