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I’m looking at this from a 3rd party of view (definitely not claiming the .net “deserves” to rank higher)

1) the .net version has a couple of very high authority links, namely from theregister and thenewstack (both of which have had lots of engagement).

I highly doubt it would have ranked without those links.

2) its only been a week. Give Google time to understand which pages should rank higher.

3) Google is biased towards sites that cover a topic earlier than others.

I’ve seen pages that are still top 3 for a particular competitive query years later, simply because they were one of the first to write about it.

Suggestions: give it time. Meanwhile I would recommend linking to your website rather than your github everywhere you mention it, to give it a boost

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If it saves anyone else the effort: I went to doublecheck the claim that those articles cited the wrong page, and it seems you're correct on The Register, but archive.org's earliest copies of the other two articles don't seem to reference the impostor site. They refer instead to the GitHub.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260301133636/https://www.there... https://web.archive.org/web/20260211162657/https://venturebe... https://web.archive.org/web/20260220201539/https://thenewsta...

>> I’ve seen pages that are still top 3 for a particular competitive query years later, simply because they were one of the first to write about it.

With so many copycats on the internet, first to publish seems like a fairly good indication of the original source. But as we can see here, that's not always true.

> 3) Google is biased towards sites that cover a topic earlier than others.

> I’ve seen pages that are still top 3 for a particular competitive query years later, simply because they were one of the first to write about it.

Reason why I still always get the Java 8 docs for any search. Annoying.

I think the real reason for that is simply that a lot of people are still running Java 8 (so those docs still see a lot of traffic). I remember reading that it's still used by something like 25% of Java developers.

Most of the problem is the "only been a week" part, likely. Though you're fighting an algorithm that's been patched in inconsistent places for all sorts of weights like "authority" and "quality".

Thousands of little weights driven by obscure attributes of the site that you're not really going to figure out by thrashing and changing stuff.

I think the precaution developers should take is having a website and adding a page to it for each project.

If you must just have a repo self host it. In fact, selfhost the repo in any case.

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