Ask HN: Why Google does not love GitHub?

6 pointsby suhair15 anni fa5 comments

Why google search is not loving GitHub as mush as StackOverflow?. It already has the metrics to decide which github projects are popular and relevant and which are not. The latest evidence is I have searched for "email_spec gem". It lists the h-lame fork as the top one instaed of the original bmabey one. Why google is ignoring the releveant data like number of people watching the project and the number of forks for the project.

This is not a solitary case. I have a strong feeling that Google is at least not giving proper importance to GitHub projects. Thoughts?

3 comments

nextparadigms15 anni fa

I'm not very familiar with either, but isn't Stackoverflow more like Quora and Github more like Google Code projects? Because then the problem would be one of content, which is formed from comments on Stackoverflow.

veyron15 anni fa

Github identifies the project as email-spec (https://github.com/bmabey/email-spec). Note the dash.

Try searching with a dash instead of an underscore

jordank15 anni fa

Also, DuckDuckGo just integrated Github into search results. If you search for "email-spec" you'll get a description directly from Github. Your original query works too.

_nil15 anni fa

One of my favorite features. I was trying to remember TermKit the other day and found it via this zero-click interface.

damusnet15 anni fa

Maybe it's more like Github doesn't pay proper attention to Google? Just guessing though, I haven't actually checked Github's SEO, and wouldn't event know where to begin.

The StackOverflow guys on the other hand have always said how they designed the site especially for Google, and keep on optimizing it accordingly.