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when i search for HN it displays it at 8th place after some irrelevant punk band and an obscure town in Montenegro.

When i search for my name (as i always do to test search engines) it doesn't show my linkedIn profile with 500+ connections at all. Even Bing learned to find it.

Summary: Not usable (yet).



Thanks. HN gets a disambiguation page. Arguably, Hacker News should be higher. In fact, it's on my list to re-visit the ordering by popularity. It does a bit of this now, but of course could be improved.

What's your name? I should actually be promoting LinkedIn pages, so this may be a bug. I'd love to check it out.


Not only does it not show my LinkedIn profile, but doesn't show: My Google, Blogger, Tumblr, Stack Overflow, or Facebook profiles.

Google does all those except Twitter and Tumbler (Stack Overflow is on the second page, sadly).

Search: "Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene"

I'm certainly not an important person but this is a very specific search.

Edit: HA! It actually shows one of my LinkedIn "friends" 30 listings down. Awesome.


Weird bug. Your LinkedIn should be first now.




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