Re: Emacs webpages missing from Google Search

On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 02:56:30PM +0100, Peter Oliver wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2026, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > > From: Ryan Tate <[email protected]>
> > > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:47:37 -0400
> > > 
> > > Can someone direct me to the documentation that explains what a lexical binding cookie is. I have run many searches and cannot find it . Thanks.
> > 
> > How did you search?
> 
> Possibly unrelated, but this reminded me: for a while now, I’ve found Google reluctant to return any results under https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/.  A search for “gnu emacs” doesn’t return this result anywhere in the first ten pages.  A search for “colorterm site:www.gnu.org” returns zero results.

FWIW, the same search on DuckDuckGo returns the relevant hit as the
first one. Actually, all the 25 first hits (I stopped counting at that
point) lead to docs on gnu.org.

Not affiliated with DDG, mind you (I do have my issues with them, too).

> I don’t know if this is anything we (or, more likely, the GNU webmasters) can do anything about, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

I'd put the blame right at Google's doorstep.

Cheers
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