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Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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Post by lunchables »

liberte82 wrote: post #31
PavlovsCat wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What's more, Google was never in the business of "being a solid search engine". Google is and always has been in the business of selling access to users' eyeballs. That's not how they became the darling of the tech scene though. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html > Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not…

When Google was first released it was revolutionary. I remember just being amazed at the quality of the search results compared to any other engines. And amazingly, the competitors still haven't caught up, for all of Google's issues.

So true, the difference was monumental. Pagerank was a huge breakthrough that seems so simple and so obvious in hindsight, it's clear why it changed everything.

The popularity of a website shouldn't be based on the number of times they can stuff keywords into a page, it should be based on the number of human beings who used the site and determined it was valuable enough to link to.

I don't know if pagerank is used anymore, but at the time, with the state of the web then, it was an incredible breakthrough.

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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Post by buboard »

rangeofmotion wrote: post #39

I really wonder about the people who work at Google. Surely they have people whose ideals are higher than this? It seems obvious that Google is a real threat to the freedom the internet originally made possible. But engineers still sign up in droves to work there? What kind of engineers are these? Do all of Google's employees simply disagree that Google is a threat? Do they not care? Are they just financially scared…

> Google is a threat

Probably not a threat yet, but it is rotting. In the internet age everything happened so fast and in most ppl's mind google is still the Do no Evil company. But , everything is faster in the internet age, and so is the rot.

> engineers still sign up i

A major reason: They have bought up every viable competitor. Their services (search, videos, adwords, adsense, amp, mail) are building a fort around their search income. Others, e.g. Social networking was not needed for their fort so it died.

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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Post by AlexandrB »

I like this. It reminds me of the pizza shop that gave 50% off to 1-star Yelp reviewers[1] or the ice cream truck that charges "influencers" double[2]. It's a statement of "I don't like your system, so I'm going to opt out of the whole thing even if it potentially harms me."

[1] https://thehustle.co/botto-bistro-1-star-yelp/

[2] https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/03/ice-cream-seller-charges-doub...

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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Post by liberte82 »

lunchables wrote: post #81
liberte82 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When Google was first released it was revolutionary. I remember just being amazed at the quality of the search results compared to any other engines. And amazingly, the competitors still haven't caught up, for all of Google's issues.

So true, the difference was monumental. Pagerank was a huge breakthrough that seems so simple and so obvious in hindsight, it's clear why it changed everything. The popularity of a website shouldn't be based on the number of times they can stuff keywords into a page, it should be based on the number of human beings who used the site and determined it was valuable enough to link to. I don't know if pagerank is used an…

Yep, prior to Google the dominant SEO strategy was to spam keywords into hidden HTML tags invisible to readers.

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Post by lmpostor »

phkahler wrote: post #78
rahuldottech wrote: post #7

> As fewer results of such not-for-profit websites show up in Google Search, competition will be reintroduced to the search market. I don't think it will. While I personally hate AMP, and disagree with many of Google's practices, this is not the solution. Google is everywhere . It is the default search engine on almost every browser, as well as on most devices. How often do you hear someone say "look it up" as oppose…

Google is losing value as a search engine. It's great for finding facts but its shit for finding fun. That's really my impression of the internet as a whole lately - there's nothing left of a noncommercial nature.

But at the same time I'm not convinced that the greater reason for this is with easier access to creating internet content we are not simply creating too much garbage to filter out all of it. It is always easier to break a system than build a bulletproof one right? I am under the impression that we are just returning to the mean of too much garbage content that is simply trying to sell something.

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Post by matz1 »

rangeofmotion wrote: post #39

I really wonder about the people who work at Google. Surely they have people whose ideals are higher than this? It seems obvious that Google is a real threat to the freedom the internet originally made possible. But engineers still sign up in droves to work there? What kind of engineers are these? Do all of Google's employees simply disagree that Google is a threat? Do they not care? Are they just financially scared…

It should be obvious that everyone has their own interest, everyone ideals are different, maybe for google it make sense to increase centralization.

Re: Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

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Post by lostmsu »

r3bl wrote: post #61
allknowingfrog wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not saying it proves anything, but Kleenex is synonymous with facial tissue and Velcro is synonymous with hook and loop fasteners. I "google" things on DuckDuckGo. :)

Yeah, I've been using DDG for years, but I just can't get "Google it" out of my dictionary. I try to replace it with "Duck it", which feels stupid as fuck to say, but "Google it" doesn't feel any better.

I don't think it is a problem. Xerox is a thing.
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