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Re:There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis by KingMob on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:29AM (#49608819)
This is all valid critique, but I have great difficulty believing Google's crawler behaves anything like yours.

I would expect Google to handle broken or missing sitemaps, honestly.

Re:There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis by viraptor on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:18AM (#49609954)
I wish. Not only do they sometimes randomly fail, Google search console will not tell your why. I've got a site with a sitemap which passes in every validator I could find, yet Google doesn't read it and GSC just reports "error" without any details. Google is big enough to go "we don't care, it's your problem".
Re:There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis by gopher_space on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:23PM (#49617274)
I’ll still catch myself thinking this way even though The Great Disillusionment was like twenty years ago.