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		moe on Nov 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for ... Does it perhaps return something to the tune of "Unknown or expired link"? :-P

Matt_Cutts on Nov 25, 2011 [–]

Nope, it looks like we haven't been able to fetch even the robots.txt file for a few days, so our system is trying to play it safe by assuming that HN is unreachable/dead.

asto on Nov 26, 2011 | [–]

Whoooosh!

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