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The whole project is a month old, and two weeks were more than enough for Google to rank the fake site first, so yes?

There is significant first-mover advantage in the index, especially when the public is finding the initial result to be good enough to satisfy their questions.

Google doesn't care more about authoritative answers than the public does; the public is one of Google's signals for good-quality results.

Back when they were good at being a web search, yes.

It usually takes one or two days for them to start ranking new pages. They're fast!

Not these days in my experience. Maybe 5-10 years ago. I imagine Google is so indundated with so much spam, and AI slop they are being more discrimantory on what to crawl and index

Yes, computers are pretty fast. But also don't ignore history, the website shouldn't have been ranked higher than the github repo in the first place

Uh? Yes?