General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath… and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
Mikołaj Hołysz
in reply to Simon Tatham • • •It should be absolutely no surprise to anybody that <keyword>.tld ranks higher than some extremely deep URL nobody can remember.
I'd suggest buying putty.something and moving the website there instead, that should fix the problem.
Leeloo
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz • • •@miki Only because by this point everyone knows that search engines prioritize fraud and advertising over good results.
It used to be that Google (before they got taken over by doubleclick) were known for exceptionally good results. You could type putty and click "I'm feeling lucky" and be redirected directly to the correct website.
Jumping through their hoops is a futile project. Now it's domain names and certificates, a couple of years ago, it was AMP sites, next week it will be AI slop that gets your site at the top.