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Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by SquareWheel »

pixl97 wrote: post #78
SquareWheel wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's right. Really empty pages that serve a 200 are recognized as "soft 404s". The idea is to detect error pages that are erroneously serving 200 instead. It's usually pretty good about detecting actual errors, but I've seen a false positive here and there.

Welcome to the modern internet "Your page didn't contain 5Mb of Javascript, this must be an error as no one could possibly convey useful information to humans with less data" Anti-patterns, anti-patterns everywhere.

Content means on-page content. Scripts and other assets have no effect here.

Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by SquareWheel »

crumpets wrote: post #93
astura wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with using jQuery in 2019?

It’s a JavaScript tool that existed 5 years ago.

No, it's because modern Javascript has now solved the problems that jQuery originally solved. Chiefly DOM manipulation and AJAX requests. It's still a fine library, but jQuery is just no longer needed.

Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by rawoke083600 »

colechristensen wrote: post #12
userbinator wrote: post #5

It really angers me that, despite the fact that it may be essentially perfectly what I'm looking for, if it was published long ago, Google may refuse to find it. Something like a news search engine would definitely be better off prioritising the new results, but for something more general-purpose, it's an absolutely horrible choice. I know this may be a bit of an edge-case, but I frequently search for service informa…

Google got where it was by being the best at finding what you wanted. I remember those days. Google has a hard time getting me what I want these days, and sites I do find do things to get found that make me like content a lot less (that's you, inane story on top of every recipe required to get ranked)

i f hate that about top ranking recipe pages... i dont need the story or history.... i need oven temp and time and most of the ingredients.. Thats bloody it !!

Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by userbinator »

alister wrote: post #13

Why does Google deeply index those useless telephone directory sites? Try searching for the impossible U.S. phone number "307-139-2345" and you'll see a bunch of "who called me?" or "reverse phone number lookup" sites. Virtually all of those sites are complete garbage. They make no attempt to collect numbers from telephone directories or from the web. They won't identify a number as being the main phone number for Di…

The flip side of trying to "solve" that problem is that you then penalise everyone searching for part numbers, which often do look very similar to phone numbers. I suspect they are making an effort to, because I've been bitten by the CAPTCHA-hellban when searching for part numbers. (Likewise, the results there are also often clogged by a bunch of useless sites claiming they have the datasheet or are selling the part, when all they do is try to show ads.)

Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by dahart »

chachachoney wrote: post #128
deanCommie wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of developers, myself included, that would prefer to approach tasks like this without having to ever lay our fingers on CSS.

I'm not sure wether or not to apply Hanlon's razor to the W3C, but regardless, the W3C is to blame for this mess. Took us twenty years to get to Grid based layouts.

And it’s a little ironic that JavaScript’s tongue-in-cheek namesake, Java, had grid based layouts in swing 20 years ago.

OTOH, and to be fair, 20 years ago HTML was for newspaper / magazine like text layout, and grid based layouts are great for single page apps. The thing that’s happened more recently than 20 years is the web changed from text & media content in a static scrolling page layout to all pages are applications.

Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by redwall_hp »

colechristensen wrote: post #12
userbinator wrote: post #5

It really angers me that, despite the fact that it may be essentially perfectly what I'm looking for, if it was published long ago, Google may refuse to find it. Something like a news search engine would definitely be better off prioritising the new results, but for something more general-purpose, it's an absolutely horrible choice. I know this may be a bit of an edge-case, but I frequently search for service informa…

Google got where it was by being the best at finding what you wanted. I remember those days. Google has a hard time getting me what I want these days, and sites I do find do things to get found that make me like content a lot less (that's you, inane story on top of every recipe required to get ranked)

I've been dabbling with DuckDuckGo lately for this reason, whenever Google fails to find what I'm looking for. It found some C++ advise that Google failed miserably with. (Failing miserably on non-trendy programming topics is becoming an increasing issue.) Also, news overrides history all the time with Google. I hope you don't want to read up on Victor Hugo and his motivations for writing a certain book...because all you'll get it recent articles about Notre Dame burning.

Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by jjordan »

rhizome wrote: post #97
alister wrote: post #13

Why does Google deeply index those useless telephone directory sites? Try searching for the impossible U.S. phone number "307-139-2345" and you'll see a bunch of "who called me?" or "reverse phone number lookup" sites. Virtually all of those sites are complete garbage. They make no attempt to collect numbers from telephone directories or from the web. They won't identify a number as being the main phone number for Di…

I have long believed that the proliferation of phone-number-lookup sites was antisocial media: spammers and other bad actors creating these sites to prevent people from having a central place to talk about bad phone experiences, associated with specific numbers. Which one is the good one? You can't tell.

Isn't that exactly what PageRank was designed to handle? None of these spammer sites should have any actual positive reputation.

Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by mxd3 »

mirimir wrote: post #41
drivingmenuts wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consider, though, that a lot of those big sites are there because of various tricks to push theselves up in ranking because they have money that the small, niche sites don’t. The little guys don’t really have a chance, unless you have a search engine specifically biased toward them.

See https://uk.pcmag.com/news-analysis/120580/how-a-vpn-review-s... for discussion of major trickage.

The only “trick” here is that the author of the website has a fake name. Otherwise, having good content that people link to is not a trick.

Re: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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Post by tedunangst »

fogetti wrote: post #77
netsa wrote: post #76

Is this website anti-google?

Why would it be anti Google? I guess you didn't read any of the blog entries about arduino, gimp or animations.

The Google doesn't like me content appears to be the only content that HN is interested in, however.
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