Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by QuantumGood on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:39AM
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Over the years, I've found the frequency of "0 result" queries has gone way up. Subjective anecdata from me, but it's a pretty big difference. There must be some large areas of their index that have been dropped over time.
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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by morkalork on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:55AM
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Also 1 page results. Around 10-20 links. Like, that's it? Really? No more? That's not what I see when I try the same query on Bing!
Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by lispy4 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:07PM
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I've noticed the same. And sometimes you'll get search results showing 10+ pages, but if you actually follow through them, the results die by the second page. Google also omits many domains from search results now.
Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by voidhorse on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:11AM
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Which has the really annoying side effect that now you actually need to produce a worse query to get decent results.
A few years back I used to scoff at people who wrote searches in the form of literal questions instead of boiling things down to key terms, e.g. the "how do i..., what is the largest..." type searches.
Nowadays I not only need to write stupid searches like this to get better results but quite literally find that my brain has adapted the pattern and my past skill at crafting salient key term, operator driven queries is eroding.