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I'd put quora in there too, why is all this walled content at the top of google constantly? It's not even high quality.
Quick tip for Quora: you can append ?share=1 to get around signup walls.
Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
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#22That used to be a common black hat seo technique.
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#23Personally I loathe seeing Pinterest come up in my Google searches. So I use a "custom" search in chrome that just sticks "-inurl:pinterest" after all my searches. Perhaps that may be an option for you.
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#26Should Google remove medium.com from search results? Maybe. My question is: if we designed the internet and web from scratch, how would we deal with paywalled pages? It might be valuable, for example, to create a separate protocol for paywalled content (eg: ""cc:"" instead of " http:// ") and add road-blocks to discourage paywalled sites from using the wrong protocol. That would allow search-engines to filter search…
It would also make it easy for search engines to label such results, filter them when necessary and hopefully we could avoid so many ad pay sites.
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#27Maybe the writer can decide if it the article is free to use? I don’t know - but from my experience Medium is one of the more “open” platforms without any restrictions for the reader.
Strange our experiences are so different.
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#28Interesting - i’ve read a lot of medium articles over the years on a daily basis, and not once it ever gave me an “upgrade” button. Maybe the writer can decide if it the article is free to use? I don’t know - but from my experience Medium is one of the more “open” platforms without any restrictions for the reader. Strange our experiences are so different.
Medium used to be a great resource, but now I loathe seeing it and I won't even bother clicking a medium link.
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#29Should Google remove medium.com from search results? Maybe. My question is: if we designed the internet and web from scratch, how would we deal with paywalled pages? It might be valuable, for example, to create a separate protocol for paywalled content (eg: ""cc:"" instead of " http:// ") and add road-blocks to discourage paywalled sites from using the wrong protocol. That would allow search-engines to filter search…
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#30I have to now not only apply the wadsworth constant to youtube videos but also to search results.