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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by swyx on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:27AM (#32356541)
Pinterest and Linkedin are the top culprits for rug-pulling search interest - they blatantly display different results to Googlebot than to humans. If I cant see the result you linked to without logging in, it shouldnt match on your search index.

The open web made you rich, please help keep it open.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by Jaruzel on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:11PM (#32359752)
Google explicitly say that you shouldn't present different results to googlebot than you would to normal users, and doing so would get your site down ranked...

Funny how they don't seem to actually enforce that rule on the big guys gaming the index...

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by mathattack on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:40PM (#32358546)
Amen on Pinterest. I wish there was a profile setting to add that never included them in my results.
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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by newsuser on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:02PM (#32359642)
You can use the UBlacklist addon to achieve that.
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