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Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by p0w3n3d »

echelon wrote: post #4

We need a P2P internet. No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted. When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature. Like RSS but better. Fully distributed. Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest gra…

There is a technological feudalism being built in an ongoing manner, and you and I cannot do anything with it.

On the other side of the same coin there are already governments that will make you legally responsible of what your page's visitors write in comments. This renders any p2p internet legally unbearable (i.e. someone goes to your page, posts some bad word and you get jailed). So far they say "it's only for big companies" but it's a lie, just boiling frogs.

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Post by daemonologist »

FuturisticLover wrote: post #9

Google search results have gone shit. I am facing some deindexing issues where Google is citing a content duplicate and picking a canonical URL itself, despite no similar content. Just the open is similar, but the intent is totally different, and so is the focus keyword. Not facing this issue in Bing and other search engines.

I've also noticed Google having indexing issues over the past ~year:

Some popular models on Hugging Face never appear in the results, but the sub-pages (discussion, files, quants, etc.) do.

Some Reddit pages show up only in their auto-translated form, and in a language Google has no reason to think I speak. (Maybe there's some deduplication to keep machine translations out of the results, but it's misfiring and discarding the original instead?)

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Post by bsder »

echelon wrote: post #4

We need a P2P internet. No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted. When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature. Like RSS but better. Fully distributed. Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest gra…

No, you need to bust up Google as the monopolist it is.

YouTube should get split out and then broken up. Google Search should get split out and broken up. etc.

This is not a problem you solve with code. This is a problem you solve with law.

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by cyberrock »

p0w3n3d wrote: post #2

Sounds similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343 in terms, that Google decides who survives and who does not in business

In the past I've heard that TripAdvisor has 60% market share for local reviews in the UK. Did Google Maps really climb that quickly? Are Instagram and TikTok not shaping tastes in London too? I feel like she might be assigning too much power to it just because that's what she used.

That's not to say I don't have gripes with how Google Maps works, but I just don't know why the other factors were not considered.

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Post by baq »

echelon wrote: post #4

We need a P2P internet. No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted. When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature. Like RSS but better. Fully distributed. Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest gra…

Centralization is simply more efficient. Redundancy is a cost and network effects make it even worse. You’d have to go the authoritarian route - effectively and/or outright ban Google and build alternatives, like Yandex or Baidu.

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Post by huksley »

I have the same issue with DollarDeploy and Bing (and consequently with DuckDuckGo which uses bing)

Primary domain cannot be found via search - Bing knows about brand, LinkedIn, YouTube channel and but refuses to show search results about primary domain.

Bing search console does not give any clue, force reindexing does not help. Google search works fine.

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Post by nottorp »

echelon wrote: post #4

We need a P2P internet. No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted. When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature. Like RSS but better. Fully distributed. Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest gra…

Websites are p2p by default actually. It's just discovery that goes through google.

Isn't what you're describing something like mastodon or usenet?

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by emsign »

bsder wrote: post #13
echelon wrote: post #4

We need a P2P internet. No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted. When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature. Like RSS but better. Fully distributed. Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest gra…

No, you need to bust up Google as the monopolist it is. YouTube should get split out and then broken up. Google Search should get split out and broken up. etc. This is not a problem you solve with code. This is a problem you solve with law.

Yes. It's a political problem and a very old one. That's why we also already have solutions for it, antitrust laws and other regulations to ensure competition and fairness in the market, to keep it free. Governments just have to keep funding and enabling these institutions.
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