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They shouldn't index stuff with a login or pay wall anyway, or should put it in a separate tab of the results or something (that is, other than in countries where they were forced to).
But tweets are on the public web without login.
They shouldn't index stuff with a login or pay wall anyway, or should put it in a separate tab of the results or something (that is, other than in countries where they were forced to).
But tweets are on the public web without login.
Some other interesting things I've noticed is counters are often wrong, sometimes even with insane values such as -1. Replies missing from retweet views, missing search results, people have reported that replies sometimes don't work or never appear.
Isn't it $1bn in interest payments Twitter owes, on what regularity is that paid, every 3 months?
Some other interesting things I've noticed is counters are often wrong, sometimes even with insane values such as -1. Replies missing from retweet views, missing search results, people have reported that replies sometimes don't work or never appear.
> counters are often wrong, I heard about "optimistic rendering" -1 does seem bad. Reddit has fluctuating numbers I thought it was to fight bots or maybe using the eventually correct type db.
Anyone who wants to know if their bot armies upvotes are counted can just choose 2000 articles, upvote a random half, then see if the half they upvoted have higher vote tallies than the half they didn't.
No amount of delay, quantizing, or adding noise will defeat that tactic. So why try at all?
google is, however, thoroughly indexing mastodon posts, if you have your server and account configured to allow crawling. enjoy
Mastodon seems to take many days to appear, if at all. I suspect Google just scrapes the webui occasionally and doesn't use any push-based mechanism for notifications. That probably means it misses some too.
Search keywords in firefox make this easy. I can type "wiki train" into my address bar and it will take me directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=train From a usability standpoint it's just as streamlined as typing the same into the address bar and expecting Google to find it for you, except you don't need Google.
Googling everything by default is a bad habit, but one Google obviously likes to encourage. They want everybody to rely on them for everything.
I never use general-purpose search engines if I already know which website the thing I'm looking for is on (assuming that website has it's own search functionality.) If I am looking for a wikipedia article, I go to wikipedia and search for it there. If I am looking for a tweet, I go to twitter and search for it there. If I'm searching for something on HN, then it's algolia. Search keywords in firefox make this easy.…