Documentation and Google
Documentation and Google
For a little while now, the official AHK documentation seems to have vanished from Google's index. I used to pull documentation with searches like "AHK GuiFromHwnd", but that does not work anymore. Bing works fine. Does anybody know what has happened?
Last edited by ThePeter on 09 Feb 2024, 05:00, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Documentation and Google
I noticed the same happening with the forum.
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This should be fixed immediately. It seems to affect www.autohotkey.com entirely. @tank, could your recent changes be the cause?
Re: Documentation and Google
Yep, noticed this too. Having to create my own browser bookmarks for each AHK topic. Didn't consider the possibility that the server change would cause this, but now that makes a bit of sense. Wow... I hope there is a way for google to bring the site back to the top of the list without the the normal time consuming process of "bubbling". That might take a while.
Re: Documentation and Google
I moved this topic to 'Forum Issues'.
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Yeah, looks like the custom search engine I had setup is also broken...
https://www.autohotkey.com/search/?q=sysget
https://www.autohotkey.com/search/?q=sysget
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Re: Documentation and Google
Forum results on Google are quite important. The forum search has less discoverability and more resource heavy. And reddit or stackoverflow are not nearly as informative than the forum.
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I had made some rather aggressive bot prevention rules in cloudflare. I just eased them a bit.joedf wrote: ↑08 Feb 2024, 14:54Yeah, looks like the custom search engine I had setup is also broken...
https://www.autohotkey.com/search/?q=sysget
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Re: Documentation and Google
Still no luck, no issue with other search engines- here's a sample of other SEs out of the box:
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Re: Documentation and Google
Assuming tank's fix was successful, it may take several weeks for the pages to reappear in the Google search index. I would recommend checking the Google Search Console from time to time to see if the pages are being indexed correctly. Optionally, indexing can also be "forced" there.
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So I guess that one way of knowing whether the Google search engine bot is back is to check the "Registered users:" line at the bottom of the "Board Index" screen.
Bing was there a second ago but has anyone seen the Google Bot?
Bing was there a second ago but has anyone seen the Google Bot?
14.3 & 1.3.7
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According to the ACP, Google [Bot]'s last activity was Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:12 pm...
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But is there any improvement yet? I don't think so.
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Re: Documentation and Google
Actually upon further investigation it seems to be related to the new servers. The server verification fails now
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@tank Okay, I've manage to DNS/Domain level verify ownership for Google Search Console. Check your messages.
Looks like 403 errors to me!
Looks like 403 errors to me!
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Re: Documentation and Google
www.ahkscript.org is still not reachable or is not redirected to autohotkey.com, i.e. some old links are currently broken. Please fix it too.
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AHK topics not searchable in Chrome?
Hi everyone
Long, long time.
Playing around with AHK again , it'll take some time to become re-aquainted
I'm searching for topics as I always did by typing in something like the following into a google search:
"AHK clear an edit control"
but nothing shows up in Google's search engine results anymore. It's just all reddit, stackoverflow, gtihub, etc but any topic here in the forums is not showing in google.
Is there something I'm unaware of as to why?
thanks..
Long, long time.
Playing around with AHK again , it'll take some time to become re-aquainted
I'm searching for topics as I always did by typing in something like the following into a google search:
"AHK clear an edit control"
but nothing shows up in Google's search engine results anymore. It's just all reddit, stackoverflow, gtihub, etc but any topic here in the forums is not showing in google.
Is there something I'm unaware of as to why?
thanks..