Why google search is not loving GitHub as mush as StackOverflow?. It already has the metrics to decide which github projects are popular and relevant and which are not. The latest evidence is I have searched for "email_spec gem". It lists the h-lame fork as the top one instaed of the original bmabey one. Why google is ignoring the releveant data like number of people watching the project and the number of forks for the project.<p>This is not a solitary case. I have a strong feeling that Google is at least not giving proper importance to GitHub projects. Thoughts?
I'm not very familiar with either, but isn't Stackoverflow more like Quora and Github more like Google Code projects? Because then the problem would be one of <i>content</i>, which is formed from comments on Stackoverflow.
Github identifies the project as email-spec (<a href="https://github.com/bmabey/email-spec" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bmabey/email-spec</a>). Note the dash.<p>Try searching with a dash instead of an underscore
Maybe it's more like Github doesn't pay proper attention to Google? Just guessing though, I haven't actually checked Github's SEO, and wouldn't event know where to begin.<p>The StackOverflow guys on the other hand have always said how they designed the site especially for Google, and keep on optimizing it accordingly.