Hey all just a quick question to shoot out there, when I used to google search e621 this site used to be in the top 2 selections however as of yesterday I noticed the search was only giving wiki's and this site directly was not on the list.

What is truly weird that if I turn off the personalised web search function suddenly this site exists again.

Is the only fix to this to just leave personalised search results off? Does everyone do that now?

I'd advise leaving it off anyways, its just another way to try to shove products down your throat

I'm curious what you're using Google search for if you already know the site's address.

lafcadio said:
I'm curious what you're using Google search for if you already know the site's address.

Possibly Reverse Image Search. I do that when I want to find the source of an image I have on my computer and the filename is of no help.

pheagleadler said:
Possibly Reverse Image Search. I do that when I want to find the source of an image I have on my computer and the filename is of no help.

https://fuzzysearch.net is made for furry stuff, checks FurAffinity, Weasyl, e621, and Twitter.

https://t.me/foxbot is exactly the same as FuzzySearch, but as a telegram bot.

https://tineye.com is great for finding images of real things.

https://trace.moe is for finding the sceen an anime came from

https://saucenao.com searches FA, e6, sofurry. And a few boorus.

lafcadio said:
I'm curious what you're using Google search for if you already know the site's address.

Oh I have always come to the site by opening chrome - pressing e - clicking e621 - clicking the first result. I figured if enough of us were constantly doing it it would make the site easier for new furs to find :3 ya know, do my small part on the google search function.

Hence my little panic attack when it disappeared from the search till I realised why. After I had been doing it this way for many years. Looks like its time to just bookmark the front page.

yetanothertemp said:
https://fuzzysearch.net is made for furry stuff, checks FurAffinity, Weasyl, e621, and Twitter.

https://t.me/foxbot is exactly the same as FuzzySearch, but as a telegram bot.

https://tineye.com is great for finding images of real things.

https://trace.moe is for finding the sceen an anime came from

https://saucenao.com searches FA, e6, sofurry. And a few boorus.

Thanks for these! did not know them!

casmin7~ said:
Oh I have always come to the site by opening chrome - pressing e - clicking e621 - clicking the first result. I figured if enough of us were constantly doing it it would make the site easier for new furs to find :3 ya know, do my small part on the google search function.

Hence my little panic attack when it disappeared from the search till I realised why. After I had been doing it this way for many years. Looks like its time to just bookmark the front page.

And that's why you don't use a browser that exists to snoop on your every move and sell its observations to advertisers.

I do much the same thing, but on Firefox, where it actually works.

yetanothertemp said:
https://fuzzysearch.net is made for furry stuff, checks FurAffinity, Weasyl, e621, and Twitter.

https://t.me/foxbot is exactly the same as FuzzySearch, but as a telegram bot.

https://tineye.com is great for finding images of real things.

https://trace.moe is for finding the sceen an anime came from

https://saucenao.com searches FA, e6, sofurry. And a few boorus.

Those all look like excellent resources thank you

I have noticed e621 does not appear among the first search results on Duckduckgo and Qwant either, but it does on Startpage. Strangely, when i search e926 on Duckduckgo and Qwant, the first search result is official art on e621.

Anyways, i advise you to use a search engine other than Google and a browser other than Chrome. Or at least leave the personalised search results off, as Yetanothertemp said.

electricitywolf said:
I have noticed e621 does not appear among the first search results on Duckduckgo and Qwant either, but it does on Startpage. Strangely, when i search e926 on Duckduckgo and Qwant, the first search result is official art on e621.

Anyways, i advise you to use a search engine other than Google and a browser other than Chrome. Or at least leave the personalised search results off, as Yetanothertemp said.

As a bonus point, his computer will thank him for not having chrome eat every goddamn resource he has. Make sure to go through the task manager and MURDER any orphaned chrome processes, the damned thing's like herpes.

For reasons i can not say, i can not comment on the google thing. However, regarding duckduckgo (its mostly bing data) i can tell you exactly why e621 (front page) doesn't appear on it. Its almost certain a organization such as roskomnadzor from Russia made a false CSAM complaint to bing about e621's front page. Big tech company's do NOT verify CSAM complaints and russia and some other censorship agency's will use that to their advantage to censor any form of hentai. I been on the receiving end of false complaints to my own websites, and this exact same thing happened to multiple of my websites to.

slayerduck said:
For reasons i can not say, i can not comment on the google thing. However, regarding duckduckgo (its mostly bing data) i can tell you exactly why e621 (front page) doesn't appear on it. Its almost certain a organization such as roskomnadzor from Russia made a false CSAM complaint to bing about e621's front page. Big tech company's do NOT verify CSAM complaints and russia and some other censorship agency's will use that to their advantage to censor any form of hentai. I been on the receiving end of false complaints to my own websites, and this exact same thing happened to multiple of my websites to.

SauceNAO had this harassment, and... it was intentional from the people reporting it. It was the sort of thing that leads to lawsuits or criminal charges against people doing it. And it wasn't some Russian agency. It was North American.
And these jokers are wanting to create a magic universal filter/scanner for devices worldwide. We pinky promise it won't be abused, but you can't challenge us when it is. >:)
Should see stories of how the Business Software Association did things back in the day. It's what happens when there's financial incentives.

alphamule said:
SauceNAO had this harassment, and... it was intentional from the people reporting it. It was the sort of thing that leads to lawsuits or criminal charges against people doing it. And it wasn't some Russian agency. It was North American.
And these jokers are wanting to create a magic universal filter/scanner for devices worldwide. We pinky promise it won't be abused, but you can't challenge us when it is. >:)
Should see stories of how the Business Software Association did things back in the day. It's what happens when there's financial incentives.

This is a good reminder that I need to setup a searx instance

alphamule said:
SauceNAO had this harassment, and... it was intentional from the people reporting it. It was the sort of thing that leads to lawsuits or criminal charges against people doing it. And it wasn't some Russian agency. It was North American.
And these jokers are wanting to create a magic universal filter/scanner for devices worldwide. We pinky promise it won't be abused, but you can't challenge us when it is. >:)
Should see stories of how the Business Software Association did things back in the day. It's what happens when there's financial incentives.

I'm aware of the saucenao thing, while similar its not the same. They complained to his hosting, rather then search engines. Any decent hosting would trash the complaint, you can pick your hosting but you can't pick what search engine people use. If you're not on a search engine, the site is dead for 95% of all users. People will actually search the exact site name on google or duckduckgo rather then put the url down fully.

slayerduck said:
If you're not on a search engine, the site is dead for 95% of all users. People will actually search the exact site name on google or duckduckgo rather then put the url down fully.

I think this might just be a you thing.

wat8548 said:
I think this might just be a you thing.

LOL, no I've seen it happen. They are confused because search and address bar are same thing. Although that almost seems the other way around with justification for combining them. ;)

slayerduck said:
If you're not on a search engine, the site is dead for 95% of all users. People will actually search the exact site name on google or duckduckgo rather then put the url down fully.

I'm not sure this is really true for all cases and all people and all websites. for content-centered websites and especially adult websites I'm not sure that logic really follows through, I feel like most people just gather a few websites/apps they care to get their content from and just stick with it, and when people do start consuming content from another host the reason for that was probably word of mouth or advertisement more than anything.

according to similarweb only ~8% of our trafic is from search engine connections, with ~82% coming from direct connections and another ~7% from links from social media. if memory serves, those numbers have been roughly the same for quite a while. and, despite FA having a consistently larger chunk of their traffic being from search engines, we've still grown to become largest furry website.

Yeah I noticed that whenever I search up e6 now I don't get any results at all and I have to go through my history to even get here now.

grimfate67 said:
Yeah I noticed that whenever I search up e6 now I don't get any results at all and I have to go through my history to even get here now.

Bruh just type in the sites adress it's literally only 8 characters

Doesn't show up on bing either, with safe search off. Not that important, but it is a bit strange. Stuff like e621.cc comes up, though. That is an issue if someone hears of the site and doesn't already know the full url.

It's back to normal.

scth said:
Doesn't show up on bing either, with safe search off. Not that important, but it is a bit strange. Stuff like e621.cc comes up, though. That is an issue if someone hears of the site and doesn't already know the full url.

e621.cc seems to make it pretty clear that it's a viewer for e621 anyways. Seems like a pretty nifty site tho.

*Adds to my hoard of links for cool sites*

gayfur said:
It's back to normal.

Can confirm, which is all rather interesting that it happened in the first place. Still, life moves on!

And we found some cool sites to use from this thread which was neat. :)