Hi, I'm brand new to this site, but I've been using Dolphin for years now, and I just realized, with the release of the latest build (3.5-122) that the site I've been downloading it from, "[censored]"
was actually NOT the official site. The issue, however, is not that this site exists, but that it's the first site that pops up when you google "Dolphin". This should be easily correctable by contacting Google, and also, when you search for "dolphin emulator" the official site is the third one on the list! Google should be informed of this ASAP to remedy this and avoid redirecting people to the wrong site! (I would do it myself, but I don't know how and it's not my domain)
I'm not aware if this occurs in other search engines besides Google, Yahoo, and Bing, but please, for the sake of offiical distribution(and ad revenue!), fix this!
-Robotortoise
P.S. A round of applause goes to the coders for redirecting me from the build to the official site if downloaded off-site!
P.P.S. The site could use more pictures, though, as [censored], the unnofficial site, is a lot prettier!
Contacting google means the other site owner has too agree too and since mamario didn't reply to their e-mails there isn't really anything they can do.
You can change this by letting everybody know that this website is now the official one
You might want to take a closer look at your bbcode next time (or avoid it altogether).
A much more reliable way to fix this is to get many people to Google dolphin emulator and click this site. This will mean Google will see it as the more popular site, and will put it higher on the list.
Basically, we have almost no control on that. The only way we have to get to the first place is to get more websites linking to dolphin-emu.org and less linking to shall not be named. More people talking about dolphin-emu.org on social medias (Google Plus, Twitter) should also help.
shall not be named is in the first place because at one time it was the official website... before the admin left with the money and stopped answering any of our requests.
(01-01-2013, 09:45 AM)robotortoise Wrote: [ -> ]P.P.S. The site could use more pictures, though, as [censored], the unnofficial site, is a lot prettier!
In your opinion, of course. To my eye the official site is much better looking.
Mamario's site looks incredibly ridiculous if you spend more than one second looking at the big picture at the front page in the "About Dolphin" paragraph.
(01-02-2013, 01:29 AM)neobrain Wrote: [ -> ]Mamario's site looks incredibly ridiculous if you spend more than one second looking at the big picture at the front page in the "About Dolphin" paragraph.
This ^^
Well, shame that not much can be done. Thanks for the responses, though, guys.
(01-02-2013, 01:29 AM)neobrain Wrote: [ -> ]Mamario's site looks incredibly ridiculous if you spend more than one second looking at the big picture at the front page in the "About Dolphin" paragraph.
Meh, I still remember how many of us strongly opposed to mamario's site becoming the official one for a number of reasons :/
Of course the dev team can do whatever they want but some folk deserves a big 'I toldya'
