Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites

Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by tyingq on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:01AM (#36196284)

Maybe a middle ground with a button for "I don't have a subscription for this site, don't show non-free content from it to me again".

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by q87b on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:14AM (#36196460)

One should not need to use an account for Google to basically work.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by emaginniss on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:34AM (#36197782)

ChatGPT requires an account to work at all

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by account42 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:20AM (#36212254)

So since there are serial killers it's OK for me to stab you as long as I stop there, right?

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by q87b on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:23AM (#36212293)

I don't see the context here but if you want: guess why I never used it.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by hedora on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:36AM (#36197820)

DDG allows to to set toggles like this without logging in.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by CamperBob2 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:16PM (#36216043)

I for one am willing to meet them halfway on that. Trouble is, they won't even give me 5% of the obvious options I'd find valuable as a user.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by BarryMilo on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:23AM (#36196567)

hahah, giving the user control! Funny stuff.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by morkalork on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:28AM (#36197654)

Which isn't such a foreign concept for them, there's a "no toll roads" option for driving directions on google maps. Why can't search be the same?

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by Pxtl on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:37AM (#36197847)

Right? It doesn't have to fully elide the result even. If the top of the SERP said "3 results hidden because they are paid sites on your non-subscribed list" I would appreciate the info.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by caoilte on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:23PM (#36198652)

They used to have an option to permanently block sites from your google results. They quietly dropped it even before they dropped reader.

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