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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by gingerlime on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:32AM (#36859951)
which should — in theory — get them penalized for cloaking. But obviously it doesn’t. Reinforcing GP’s point.
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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by NavinF on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:00AM (#36862339)
Google has gotten pretty lenient about that: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po...

"If you operate a paywall or a content-gating mechanism, we don't consider this to be cloaking if Google can see the full content of what's behind the paywall just like any person who has access to the gated material and if you follow our Flexible Sampling general guidance."

I wonder if they just gave up

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by post-it on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:16AM (#36862577)
Hypothesis: Search, being Google's oldest product, is no longer prestigious to work in. It's in maintenance mode.
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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by zerkten on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:09AM (#36862489)
Does Google run other indexers for the purposes of catching cloaking? Are there other strategies that can be used? One of the problems of SO is that most of the valid content is out there and easily available without having to scrape the site which may mean penalizing for bad content is harder.
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