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It's almost like they should queue these into a human-reviewed dashboard before, yknow, being wrong. The "world's information store", or whatever their altruist goal was that fooled people, is certainly disorganized and untrustworthy these days.
They do... they add them to Search Console, the dashboard for webmasters.
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Oh, is that why every recipe on the internet these days is prefixed by five paragraphs of waffling and photos taken from slightly different angles? Thanks, that makes sense, but somehow it never occurred to me that it was SEO. (It’s also reminded me that I’ve been meaning to order some cookbooks.)
There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > This Chrome browser extension helps cut through to the chase when browsing food blogs. It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I really want to check out.
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…
Has the time come for wiki directory of non-commercial (possibly: advertising-free, cookie-free) sites with robust, actually valuable information, and other sites that are doorways to them (think: topical forums, even revived webrings, etc)? Could this feasibly get enough action to be useful?
I have a couple of websites generated from databases. Each has around half a million pages of unique content. The first one was indexed in like a week at 100K/day, almost instant tsunami of traffic. The second one is being indexed at 100-1000 pages per day, it's been years. Google works in mysterious ways.
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…
Thoughts after thinking about this comment and thread for a day: Has the time come for wiki directory of non-commercial (possibly: advertising-free, cookie-free) sites with robust, actually valuable information, and other sites that are doorways to them (think: topical forums, even revived webrings, etc)? Could this feasibly get enough action to be useful?
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>you do 'display: grid' and use justify/align: center depending on axis. The code makes sense it is not a hack. It also doesn’t work on IE latest or Edge.
Have you been reading SO answers?!? It works fine in Edge. Why don't you try? IE latest - there is no such thing. The latest steam engines, the latest CRT screens and the latest buggy whips probably don't do CSS Grid either. IE exists for compatibility with enterprise apps but isn't 'latest'. It is legacy. And the content will still work even if CSS Grid is not supported, just the layout won't be perfect.
It looks like IE is still the #3 browser, ahead of both Edge and Safari.
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Thoughts after thinking about this comment and thread for a day: Has the time come for wiki directory of non-commercial (possibly: advertising-free, cookie-free) sites with robust, actually valuable information, and other sites that are doorways to them (think: topical forums, even revived webrings, etc)? Could this feasibly get enough action to be useful?
Yes. I was looking for a modern _human_ curated directory of web content just the other day and found nothing usable. I don't think that excluding commercial entries would be necessary, but perhaps there could be some way to filter commercial entries out. Ad-free, JS-free, and cookie-free would be ideal.
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…
Aside from what others have said ITT, i have a personal hate for the general fact that we cannot lookup a phone number on the internet with accuracy and ease. FFS, 411 was amazing before the web. Also, in about 1989 my friend and i used to have a contest between us; to call 411 and see who could keep the 411 operator on the phone the longest. This was a fun social engineering exercise for 14 year old nerds who like t…