Danbooru

Is danbooru hidden from google searches?

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Today I used google to search for an artist's name accompanied by "danbooru" beside it like I normally do but the search results don't show any from danbooru. I also tried to search for only "danbooru" and don't see the page as the first result anymore. This is also the case with some other archiver websites. What is happening?

Unbreakable said:

From what I've heard, some Google accounts won't see it and have to log out before it appears.

You're right, logging out makes it appear but after I logged back in, it is hidden again :(

Tested it out after seeing this thread, and same issue here. Danbooru not showing up in search results, and some "artist + danbooru" searches don't return any results at all while logged in. Incognito/logged out searches return full results as normal.

Did some searching and I found posts from the past week of people having similar problems in general, with searches returning only tangential results while logged in. It seems to be part of a wider issue, not just a Danbooru specific thing. Either something broke, or we're getting A/B tested for something.

In my case, turning off this setting seems to have fixed things for now.

OblivArt said:

Tested it out after seeing this thread, and same issue here. Danbooru not showing up in search results, and some "artist + danbooru" searches don't return any results at all while logged in. Incognito/logged out searches return full results as normal.

Did some searching and I found posts from the past week of people having similar problems in general, with searches returning only tangential results while logged in. It seems to be part of a wider issue, not just a Danbooru specific thing. Either something broke, or we're getting A/B tested for something.

In my case, turning off this setting seems to have fixed things for now.

This has also worked for me.

OblivArt said:

Tested it out after seeing this thread, and same issue here. Danbooru not showing up in search results, and some "artist + danbooru" searches don't return any results at all while logged in. Incognito/logged out searches return full results as normal.

Did some searching and I found posts from the past week of people having similar problems in general, with searches returning only tangential results while logged in. It seems to be part of a wider issue, not just a Danbooru specific thing. Either something broke, or we're getting A/B tested for something.

In my case, turning off this setting seems to have fixed things for now.

From what I've read on google help forums, it's some "experimental features" that google enforces on some users without their knowledge. Most of these "experiments" always remove features from users instead of adding new features for them.

Also thank you, turning off that personal results setting did fix it for me as well. You're a big help!

OblivArt said:

Tested it out after seeing this thread, and same issue here. Danbooru not showing up in search results, and some "artist + danbooru" searches don't return any results at all while logged in. Incognito/logged out searches return full results as normal.

Did some searching and I found posts from the past week of people having similar problems in general, with searches returning only tangential results while logged in. It seems to be part of a wider issue, not just a Danbooru specific thing. Either something broke, or we're getting A/B tested for something.

In my case, turning off this setting seems to have fixed things for now.

Good lad, works.

Oh man thank you for this post, I was going nuts trying to figure out what happened on my phone. As of a few days ago I've had the same problem with my Google searches, usually directing me towards scenery or concept art instead of the usual front page.

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