I like Google, but wouldn’t mind a better search engine, even at the cost of my privacy, so long as I had a choice for what could be shared.
Can you explain what you mean by this? I’ve read it a few times and don’t understand
Removing my site from Google search
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Re: Removing my site from Google search
#32seems like it would hurt your traffic
Only if there is relevant traffic from Google to begin with, which is highly unlikely for a site like this. A high percentage of results in almost every Google search comes from the closed circle of the same top 10,000 sites or so. This is the beauty of a protest like this, because this site does have valuable content, and if enough sites like this joined the protest it could actually hurt the relevancy of the Google…
I don't think that's so unlikely: on my blog ~30% of visitors come from searches
Re: Removing my site from Google search
#33Imagine wikipedia and the top newspapers doing this ... users will start to use another search engine.
Normal users will start to use another newspaper
Re: Removing my site from Google search
#34Alternatively just use EFF's privacy badger and duckduckgo to stop feeding the beast?
Those are active steps you can take - I am not convinced a few metatags will stop Google spidering your site (even if it is invisible in results), and is of questionable value if you are still using Google search and not blocking their scripts.
Re: Removing my site from Google search
#35I like Google, but wouldn’t mind a better search engine, even at the cost of my privacy, so long as I had a choice for what could be shared.
Can you explain what you mean by this? I’ve read it a few times and don’t understand
Sure. I probably could’ve been much more clearer.
I don’t think Google taking your information and sharing it with advertisers is a great sin. Somewhat annoying but nothing particularly harmful.
I do think the search results are easily manipulated and it can be frustrating trying to find relevant information. Like most people I end up defaulting to Reddit for search queries just to find something that isn’t a blog by someone shilling their product.
But I understand the invasion of privacy would irritate some people and maybe in the long term it would be a net negative. So if there was a search engine that explicitly asked for certain information and you had the option to share, that would probably go a long ways.
Re: Removing my site from Google search
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you actually read your link? That's not at all what it says.
Quote from the linked article: “ For those of you who relied on the noindex indexing directive in the robots.txt file, which controls crawling, there are a number of alternative options:” The first option is the meta tag. It does mention an alternative directive for robots.txt, however.
What about the blocking google bot by their IPs, also combined with user-agent wouldn't that stop the crawlers
Google crawlers IPs https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-the-ip-address-of-google-81...
Re: Removing my site from Google search
#37Or just block all of the IP addresses listed at these URLs:
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOGL/nets
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOOGL-1/nets
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOOGL-2/nets
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOOGL-24/nets
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOOGL-4/nets
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOOGL-46/nets
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOOGL-5/nets
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOOGL-9/nets
Re: Removing my site from Google search
#38Removing website from Google search is the least of worries. Every meaningful aspect of your life is now being monitored by corporations and governments. It is too fucking late. That fucked up social scoring system being used in China to oppress people is coming here. Only instead of government doing it directly It will be mostly performed by corporations to keep the appearance of "free" society. Corps will collect your data, assign you a rank and act accordingly.
Re: Removing my site from Google search
#39Imagine wikipedia and the top newspapers doing this ... users will start to use another search engine.
Wikipedia should do this as Apple and Google are showing Wikipedia results as their own, robbing, IMO, Wikipedia of importance. Wikipedia is large enough that it should have their own search engine, likely with more relevant results.
Re: Removing my site from Google search
#40I like Google, but wouldn’t mind a better search engine, even at the cost of my privacy, so long as I had a choice for what could be shared.
Can you explain what you mean by this? I’ve read it a few times and don’t understand
I think OP means they don't mind sharing their information with the search engine (be it Google, another engine that provides better results, or even a better Google in terms of results), _as long as_ OP has control over exactly what is being shared.
As an aside, I do see the trend for some companies to provide this control nowadays. Even Google is doing it (e.g. you can auto delete your information, or turn them off completely): https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy
Of course, whether or not you believe Google is doing what you have configured in the backend is another question... and there is nothing anyone can do to actually make you believe it short of giving you complete access to the entire Google backend. Or is there a way to verify without exposing? Maybe an interesting research topic...