Title: You can confirm this by searching for &#x27;hacker news&#x27; in Google; the #1 ranking URL is &#x2F;newest, rather than the front page. This isn&#x27;t term specific - the site doesn&#x27;t appear for other terms that it usually ranks well for, such as &quot;news.ycombinator.com&quot; or &quot;hn&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve checked the usual technical reasons (html head canonical&#x2F;robots meta tag, http headers, robots.txt issues) but I don&#x27;t see anything untoward.<p>I&#x27;ll keep looking into it, but I&#x27;m posting this here in case the admins&#x2F;mods have made any changes recently that could have had an effect. There&#x27;s a possibility that the URL has been removed by Google for some particular reason, though I can&#x27;t think of many pages that deserve it less than HN.<p>I&#x27;ll update this thread if I see anything, but hopefully someone else will post an answer before I figure it out....
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