Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content

Re:Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by vincent_s on Monday July 15, 2024 @05:23PM (#40971572)

You're correct about Google's poor interpretation of "what you really want." This issue worsened with AI-driven query interpretation like RankBrain.

But the main problem now is that the content you're looking for just might not be in Google's index at all.

An additional data point: 10 years ago, Google would provide up to 1000 results per query. Now, it's usually no more than 100. They've even removed the total result count from search pages.

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Re:Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by observationist on Monday July 15, 2024 @05:31PM (#40971639)

Google thinks what you really want is to give them all your attention and money in return for the privilege of breathing on the same planet as them.

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Re:Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by vincent_s on Monday July 15, 2024 @05:48PM (#40971761)

This is just how businesses evolve. Early Google was driven by founder vision and engineering excellence. They wanted to build something better than everything else.

Now, those visionaries are gone. Google is run by managers focused on efficiency. Why maintain a massive, costly index when a smaller, cheaper one generates just as much revenue?

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Re:Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by blitzar on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @04:10AM (#40974497)

> Early Google was driven by founder vision, those visionaries are gone

Their visions are gone but they are still there - they just have planes to fly around in, yachts to sail on and interns to sleep with instead of "doing no evil"

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