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Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

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

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Post by nine_k »

rigorman wrote: post #143
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…

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?

Think about the proliferation of various "awesome" lists on Github.

Some of them are curated and awesome. Some, less so. Likely some of them are even spammy.

The need is realized, but execution is hard.

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

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Post by GFischer »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #124
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's strong preference for newer content is also kind of a middle finger to content creators. I have written many, many non-fiction articles over the years, and a large portion have been subsequently slurped up by these low-effort lazy-rewrite shops that just change a little bit of phrasing and call it their own. Google prioritizes these borderline-plagiarized, unsourced articles over mine just because the newer…

I´m really sorry, this is what copyright should be for, but I´m sure it´s whack-a-mole and a load of money :(

FWIW I love your content.

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

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Post by rhizome »

jjordan wrote: post #138
rhizome wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a network of non-phone sites linking to them that juice their PR. Like I surmised: it's a broad-based strategy.

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

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Post by cududa »

chachachoney wrote: post #125
jfoutz wrote: post #27

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Hmm. I keep getting warnings about responding to quickly. Perhaps my account is under attack. Setting that aside, google has done good things. Today, not so much. It’s never too late to turn the ship around. Google can still be awesome. Our opinions aren’t that different. I don’t think big g can turn it around, but I’m rooting for them.

I'm struggling to think of a single historical example of corporate entity the size of google that has "turned it around" rather than abusing the good faith of a customer base for the duration of their race to the bottom. Google can't still be awesome, as they're no longer seeking to disrupt an existing market and burning through venture capital while doing everything and anything (including providing superior search…

Microsoft is a good example

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

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Post by Theodores »

andrewprock wrote: post #146
Theodores wrote: post #58

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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.

Checking here: https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx It looks like IE is still the #3 browser, ahead of both Edge and Safari.

Internet Explorer is a compatibility solution. It is there to run the old stuff. It is still kept secure but it is not getting any new features, there is Edge for that.

The statistics you quote are meaningless. Go to another statistics provider and you will get different stats again. Include mobile and Safari suddenly becomes rather major.

Supporting a depreciated browser is not the way to go. This has to be understood, the methodology of where the stats comes from is also mysterious, given how much of he internet is click fraud bots who knows what is what?

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

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Post by trillic »

rhizome wrote: post #163
jjordan wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a network of non-phone sites linking to them that juice their PR. Like I surmised: it's a broad-based strategy.

Google has cycle detection in PageRank specifically for this reason? They know which regions of the graph are good ones.

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

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Post by tambourine_man »

deanCommie wrote: post #105
Theodores wrote: post #33

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You have hit on a major problem there. Stack Overflow was once the fount of all useful genius grade knowledge, but times change and some of the top answers are plain wrong. Take for example the 'how do I centre a div' type of question. You will get to find an answer with thousands of up-votes that will be some horrendous margin hack type of thing where you set the width of the content and have some counter intuitive…

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

You should change fields then. CSS is amazing and not going anywhere.

It's one leg from the tripod letter soup (HTML, CSS and JS) on which the Web stands.

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

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Post by speedplane »

rightbyte wrote: post #46
speedplane wrote: post #30

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> only 1 in 3000 pages gets indexed ... we should see this ratio continue to degrade until this fundamental architecture is replaced. Content on the internet is growing exponentially. Processing power is not. Losing access to information is just one of the many sad implications of the death of Moore's law.

Is text non-spam growing exponentially? I have a hard time believing so.

> Is text non-spam growing exponentially? I have a hard time believing so.

Yes. The number of content-creating humans on this planet with access to the internet is still growing exponentially. Eventually it will level off, but for now, the Internet is growing faster than Google can index.

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