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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by Ekaros on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:24AM (#36195860)
I always wondered. How did we manage to run anything lets say 20 years ago. We should have multiple times more memory, cpu, bandwidth available... Or are we just that many magnitudes more inefficient?
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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by timw4mail on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:32AM (#36195950)
Yes, it is magnitudes more inefficient, with large JS payloads, slow APIs, and underpowered cloud hosts.
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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by eterm on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:44AM (#36196095)
Websites often went down under load 20 years ago too but people were far more quick to think it was their own connection on the blink.

Yes, sites were much better engineered too, with smaller and less rich and less dynamic payloads, but don't count out a change in expectations along with it.

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