Recently, I notice more and more search results Google are locked behind registration gates, and not only does Google list them at all, they're often the top results (Think Quora, Pinterest). I never had issues accessing the content in the results but recently, it's bad. Does no one at Google care? Are the people in charge investors at Pinterest/Quora?
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#2It's not just pinterest/quora. Bloomberg News is also often up there, and a few others.
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#3Google should just outright delist these sites, they are incredibly annoying and worthless
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#5An era has finished, that's all. Google's corpse will be decomposing for quite a while though. Hopefully they will find their Nadella before they get completely IBM'd.
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#6I recently stopped using google and switched my default to DuckDuckGo. So far I haven't needed to go back to google for anything.
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#7Google should just outright delist these sites, they are incredibly annoying and worthless
Google has "kinda" allowed this to happen for a number of years. They used to push sites to have a "first read free" policy so that their bot can still access semi-gated content.
Now they suggest "flexible sampling" [0] to let "users" view a limited amount of content per time period.
This is a game Google has been playing for a while that goes beyond SEO and seems to really be some issue with publishers. But to be fair there are a number of instances where publishers want free access to Google's search pages and users while requesting a fee for writing the content they indexed in the first place.
[0] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearanc...
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#8I recently stopped using google and switched my default to DuckDuckGo. So far I haven't needed to go back to google for anything.
Me too. DDG is still not as good on certain searches, but most of the time it's perfectly adequate.
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#9Golden...for their AMP!
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#10I recently stopped using google and switched my default to DuckDuckGo. So far I haven't needed to go back to google for anything.
Me too. DDG is still not as good on certain searches, but most of the time it's perfectly adequate.
One day I hope either ddg becomes good, or a good alternative pops up.