Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites

Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by Hard_Space on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:11AM (#36196412)

Anecdata, but I can confirm a uniform and long-standing experience that adding colon-based operators to a search query results in a CAPTCHA challenge every single time on a subsequent search, even if the subsequent search is 'vanilla' (i.e., no operators). Has been like this more years now than I can remember. Apparently this kind of 'advanced' usage is indication of bot activity.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by raverbashing on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:25AM (#36196597)

So now anyone displaying slightly more intelligence than an eggplant while doing a search in Google is a "bot"?

Appalling

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by freedomben on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:15AM (#36197388)

welcome to the machine learning future, where anything you do that is a statistical outlier gets you algorithmed by a machine that is incapable of reason but knows when you're different.

As a person who has been a statistical outlier most of my life, I am dreading this. It's bad enough dealing with human impressions and mis-judgment, but now we get it from our computers now, which used to be logical, deterministic havens.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by pixl97 on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:01PM (#36199341)

>As a person who has been a statistical outlier most of my life

Anomaly detected. Termination authorized.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by CatWChainsaw on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:36AM (#36226626)

All humans must be reduced to sameness so machine successors can flourish.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by brazzledazzle on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:19AM (#36197470)

For what it’s worth this never, ever happens to me. These days I only get captcha’d when someone’s laptop on the same network gets owned and is being used to hit google.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by 29083011397778 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:25PM (#36198686)

Appalling what that says about Google, or what that says about the average search user?

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by Atlas22 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:48PM (#36199100)

C) All of the above

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by chefandy on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:30AM (#36197689)

Hmm... VPN, big proxy, or some other contributing factor? I use site: all the time, not on chrome, and without being logged in... If I've ever gotten captchas doing so, it wasn't frequently enough to see a pattern. Maybe some property of the site makes a difference that puts your usage and my usage on either side of that fence?

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by Hard_Space on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @11:51AM (#36228472)

> VPN, big proxy, or some other contributing factor?

My big crime is that I live in Romania, I think.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by chefandy on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:40PM (#36231403)

:: Google shaking its fist in the air ::

Damn Romanians!

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by Hard_Space on Thursday June 08, 2023 @03:08AM (#36238315)

> Damn Romanians!

Not even Romanian! (Brit transplant)

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by chefandy on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:35PM (#36282867)

Everybody adopts the nationality of their IP address in internet land!

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by foobazgt on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:44AM (#36197960)

I have never had this experience once in... decades? I use operators such as site: frequently. I suggest there's some other property of your environment that's setting captcha off - vpn, shared sketchy ip/network, etc. Bad actors suck.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by buggyipadmettoo on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:08PM (#36207160)

Same. Use it everyday for majority of my G searches, never once seen a captcha (except when using VPN). OP, are you logged in to google? I am. Wonder if that’s the difference?

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