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Re:Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetW... by temp667 on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:50PM (#24114422)
Dude - I went to your side. I looked up a random word - it had a 3 word definition with 12 seconds to interaction, at least a second of blocking content, a pageload time of 25 seconds (!! for three words!), 352 requests! 1.5MB page size, and content farm crap filling out the rest of the page.

I mean, I'm a user of the web, and I hated sites like this.

You score terribly among all major search providers I tried BTW. Your page-speed score was an F.

You have something like 50 redirect chains on a page with three words!!

Some of these chains are 20 items long (ie, 20 redirects). I mean - how does this even happen?

Quick heads up - This is going to rank terribly everywhere.

Yes, google does "penalize" content farms, and they did a big redo a while back to really try to push this type of 99% repeating content off their index. I've no doubt they hit some good sites, yours doesn't look like one at first glance, but even if I just go unlucky there were tons of sites (review sites / how to sites) that just had endless repeating content with very little originality.

How do folks at google even have time to deal with sites like this and these types of complaints "I confronted Matt" etc...

Re:Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetW... by WalterGR on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:27PM (#24114811)
I have no idea what you’re talking about. The site has never had any of that.

Did you go to the right site?

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

What URLs are you seeing this on? What browser and OS?

I wonder if anyone else can repro what this new user is describing.

Re:Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetW... by arh68 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:43AM (#24119299)
No issues rendering in Firefox on Linux.

GET /random-word/ does indeed 302 exactly once.

22 requests, 344.58 KB / 12.62 KB transferred, Finish: 619 ms, DOMContentLoaded: 483 ms, load: 640 ms. Pretty okay.

Re:Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetW... by sundarurfriend on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:09PM (#24128261)
Be pretty ironic if they went to the Urban Dictionary, it does sound like a plausible UD experience.