Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by richiezc on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:26PM
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That's not a microsoft decision per se, my friend who was previously SEO PM at LinkedIn made this change to increase signups.
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by _jal on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:24PM
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It does bug me that they pollute search results with login-required resources. Search engines should treat that as abuse, or at the very least default to freely available resources, otherwise they just become a menu without prices.
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by apple4ever on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:51PM
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Google should start delisting their indexes for that reason, just like they are doing for sites with popups.
It used to be that it would only nag you to sign up or log in when trying to view extended profile attributes. Now it just requires you to log in to even view someone's name and function. It shows up in the search results alright, some day I should find a UA changer to spoof Google and see if they do IP checking or just UA header checking, but generally, they made it completely locked-in now, whereas it was semi-open (at least to view) before. It was a user-configurable setting whether your profile could be viewed by people who are not signed in, and now it's just a completely walled garden.