[fpc-pascal] FPC websites blocked

[Wayne Sherman]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 8:52 AM Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> And BTW (sorry to replying to my own message :-( ) - checking whether
> search engines are blocked from the Wiki is obviously much easier than
> what was suggested in the original post. Searching for "FPC release
> engineering" using both DuckDuckGo and Google resulted in finding the
> above mentioned page as the first result

Unfortunately checking web search indexes is not that simple.  That
wiki page has been there since 2015.  Do you know the last time it was
indexed?  (two ways to check:  use Google's URL Inspection tool, and
analyze web server logs)

For some searches the search engine will provide the date of the page.
Google search dates the page from 2025 which is the last time it was
changed:
Release engineering - Lazarus wiki
Free Pascal wiki
https://wiki.freepascal.org › Release_engineering
Jun 20, 2025 — This article discusses how to make a release of the FPC
compiler on various platforms. Contents. 1 Migration of existing SVN
checkout; 2 Notes ...

Searching for "CudaText" gives a fresh result which means Google
Search is still indexing:
CudaText - Lazarus wiki
Free Pascal wiki
https://wiki.freepascal.org › CudaText
Apr 5, 2026 — CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in
Object Pascal language using the Lazarus IDE, with a focus on
performance and a broad featureset.CudaText - Lazarus wiki

DuckDuckGo doesn't provide dates, but they primarily use Bing's search
index.  Bing is also up-to-date:
Free Pascal wiki
https://wiki.freepascal.org › CudaText
CudaText - Lazarus wiki - Free Pascal
Apr 5, 2026 · CudaText is a text editor written in Object Pascal using
the Lazarus IDE, with features such as syntax highlighting, code
folding, auto-completion, and …