[HN Gopher] Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
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       Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
        
       Author : diggan
       Score  : 79 points
       Date   : 2025-07-05 14:33 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.gamingonlinux.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.gamingonlinux.com)
        
       | pxc wrote:
       | > Annoyingly, Microsoft also back in May decided to just remove
       | us from Bing News and massively deranked us, following 1 single
       | hour downtime due to a data centre problem and show no signs of
       | putting us back in - which was a bit of a blow (so we barely
       | appear in anything like DuckDuckGo now). I've tried explaining
       | this to Microsoft, and they just don't care.
       | 
       | Maybe they don't care. But sidelining publications like this
       | works in Microsoft's favor, whether they're
       | explicitly/deliberately working towards that outcome or not.
        
         | yegg wrote:
         | FWIW we (DuckDuckGo) have largely moved in another direction
         | for news results, at least in the US so far.
        
           | Y_Y wrote:
           | > largely moved in another direction for news results, at
           | least in the US so far.
           | 
           | So you do mostly use Bing for news, but have partially
           | replaced it in the US?
           | 
           | Why speak in riddles?
        
             | johnisgood wrote:
             | I did not consider it to be a riddle, but it would be nice
             | to know what they are using for X (News, Photos, whatever).
             | Is this information available anywhere? I went to DDG's
             | News, but could not find anything related to Bing.
        
         | kirab wrote:
         | Microsoft started a huge Xbox "OS" push, against Steam Deck and
         | Linux on Handhelds, and coincidentally they removed
         | GamingOnLinux from Bing News.
         | 
         | Hmm..
        
         | 3eb7988a1663 wrote:
         | I am more curious - do web hosts get any kind of analytics from
         | the search engines or is this just an empirical observation of
         | how traffic has decreased over a unit of time?
        
           | diggan wrote:
           | Unless the browser is configured otherwise, there is a
           | referrer ("referer" to be precise) header that the server
           | receives when you go to a page from a link. This is how it
           | could look from the webmaster's point of view:
           | https://plausible.io/plausible.io/sources
        
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