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Google no longer automatically indexes websites?

See discussion (393 comments, 466 points) - Archive

Bing Jail

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Analyzing the websites that are used to train AI chatbots

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We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing

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Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl

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EU Open Web Search project kicked off

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Meta is building an AI to fact-check Wikipedia

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A Theoretical Justification (2021)

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My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google

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Google Search Results Plagued with spam “.it” domains

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10% of the top million sites are dead

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A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)

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Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

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Google's AI doesn't understand restaurant menus

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Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots

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Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it

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Google says AI generated content is against guidelines

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Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues

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Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap?

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Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet

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Google exec challenges Berners-Lee (2006)

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Wikivoyage has disappeared from DuckDuckGo

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Removing my site from Google search

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Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it

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The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

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Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code

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Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation

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The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

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We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis

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Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web

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In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click

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Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast

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Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

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Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage

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The Semantic Future of the Web

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Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results

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We can do better than DuckDuckGo

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Developing for the Semantic Web

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What happened to the Semantic Web? (2017) [pdf]

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Google’s top search result is Google

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Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

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Google Search Upgrades Make It Harder for Websites to Win Traffic

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Popular Pirate Sites Slowly “Disappear” from Google’s Top Search Results

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Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019

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Google gave our business listing to a competitor

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

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Google backtracks on search results design

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How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?

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Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore

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Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics

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Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views

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The world needs more search engines

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I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo

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The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)

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Google Interferes with Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results

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How internet ads work

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Million Short

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Google begins penalising domain leasing

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Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click

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Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?

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Google Search is routinely gamed by private blog networks

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PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services

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Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content

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Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

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The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index

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It seems that Google is forgetting the old web

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Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on the page at all

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How does one appear in the Google News carousel?

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Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they say they are?

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Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click

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I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017)

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This blog has moved

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Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps?

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Publishing JSON-LD for Developers

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Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes

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Google bug bounty for security exploit that influences search results

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“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Google Memory Loss

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Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set

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Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web

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How Booking.com manipulates users

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Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

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Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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API Discovery: Can we do better?

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Google AdWords Switching to 4 Ads on Top, None on Sidebar

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Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down

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A Moss Girl’s Guide to Japanese Moss Viewing

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The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com

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Data is at the heart of search, but who has access to it?

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The day I was DoSed by Google

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Google Blacklist – Words That Google Instant Doesn't Like (2010)

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Service drains competitor's Adwords budget

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On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer

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Panda 4.0: Why eBay lost many of its organic rankings

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Does Google Have A Secret “Translate” Service?

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The SEO Dominance of RetailMeNot

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Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Result Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam

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A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular web sites from its index

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New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen

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Challenging the Bing It On Challenge

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What happened to Google Alerts?

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A Eulogy For AltaVista, The Google Of Its Time

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The Destruction of the Web

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Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck

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Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day

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Goodbye AdSense

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Image Ad Blending Works Really, Really Well

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The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange

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Chrome extension "Awesome Screenshot" messes with Google search results

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YouTube Unveils Slick Experimental Redesign, Codenamed Cosmic Panda

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Google Exec Says It's A Good Idea: Open The Index And Speed Up The Internet

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Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers

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Introducing Tapir: Simple search for static sites

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How to hide Ryanair

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Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets

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Google 2000 vs. Google 2011

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Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results

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How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google's Search Results

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Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it

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Microsoft: 'We do not copy Google's results'

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Google search and search engine spam

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Stack Overflow results now included in MSDN Search

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AdGrok (YC S10) Simplifies Keyword Bidding And More On Google AdWords

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Our new search index: Caffeine

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Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love

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Fed up with Mahalo's search engine spam? Report it here

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Google's Javascript PDF Viewer is Embeddable

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Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack

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The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

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Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]

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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse

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Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says

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Google search drops cache link from search results

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Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations

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Google Reneged on the Monopolistic Bargain

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I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot

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The internet is slipping out of our reach

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Are We Watching the Internet Die?

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Google Is Killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites

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Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search

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In Response to Google

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More info about synonyms at Google (2010)

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I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search

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How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search

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YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign

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How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

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Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice

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Google dropping continuous scroll in search results

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Google now defaults to not indexing your content

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The semantic web is now widely adopted

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Dublin Core, what is it good for?

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