Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites

Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by BryantD on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:28AM (#36196630)

Those of us who worked there thank you!

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by mech422 on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:34AM (#36196713)

I loved me the 'near' keyword - thanks!

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by masukomi on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:32AM (#36197746)

I both appreciated Alta Vista, and appreciated its office space in Littleton ( i think ) when i worked in it after its passing. ;)

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by lispy4 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:08PM (#36198410)

Loved everything about Alta Vista, including the logo, and the UI.

I miss 90s Internet in general. It wasn't the ugly battleground and desolation planet that the current net has become.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by fragmede on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:13PM (#36198469)

Remember Guestbooks? you'd visit a website, and volunteer your name and which country you were from and leave comments. And it wouldn't be a cesspool of spam and porn and XSS attacks? How quaint!

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by lispy4 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:35PM (#36198861)

Oh gosh, yes! And reading the guestbook was always so fun. An elderly friend of mine passed away in 2018, and in doing a (google) search of him, I found guestbooks he'd signed 20 years ago.

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