Not sure how relevant this is, but the animal characters in the top image are from a Russian children hit cartoon "The Smesharicks" (literally "The Laughballs").
Also, the left image of a woman from a russian meme from a tv show.
The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
221–230 of 359 posts
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#222I've seen the same here in Germany but they do appear only if you use the results within the last 24h functionality. It looks like the German content is generated through GPT2 or 3. It makes no real sense if you read it. If you go on the page you are immediately redirected to a scam just like the article mentions. Interestingly they use ".it" domains here. It also looks like the domains might have been hacked or are…
I had similar experiences with: https://www.xspdf.com/resolution/51859292.html
The content seems taken from other websites and mixed in a nonsensical way. It comes up frequently in my search results. www.xspdf.com has completely unrelated content and seems a separate business.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And it's mainly not even their fault. It's precisely their fault, they've created an environment that incentivizes low quality, irrelevant content and are actively hostile towards users. Two examples just from top of my head: ignoring the country website, previously if you wanted to search only local news it was very easy to do. Another was ignoring completely the exact phrase search with double brackets.
Ignoring double brackets drives me crazy. That's the last straw that sent me to DDG, although I have to say that DDG isn't much better either. What made me really angry aboyt Google Search was when they removed their function to search in discussion forums. But even then you could more or less filter out crap. Nowadays it feels very hard. I find myself using the site: flag many times, but you need to know the site be…
Yeah, I also try DDG first then and only if not okay I go !g. Now I wonder, why did GOO break such a useful thing? They could have shown advertisements also in their "classic" search (let's call it like that) so I'm really at loss - what was in it for them to change??? Germans have a word for that "verschlimmbessern" (or even two words - kaputtreparieren) which means breaking something by trying to make it better.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are no mountain trolls in Finnmark, they live further south as the mountains in Finnmark are not very big.
Have you met them? Please tell yes.
Yes just go to Jotunheimen and you will find them. But don't go if you are Christian. Call Troll Security Service if you need help.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We reported the sites to both CF and Google, and to my knowledge, not a single site were removed before the people behind it took it down. As someone that tried reporting spam sites because they were using content scrapped from my website, I'm not surprised. Cloudflare has a policy that they will not stop providing their IP hiding/reverse proxy services to anyone, regardless of complaints. The best they do is forwa…
They might take that stance, to avoid liability and complication. At the moment, they have a very clear rule. If they stop providing services to obvious spammers, they will create lots of grey areas, and they will also implicitly make a judgement that the client they still serve are _good_ in some way, and an enterprising lawyer or muckraker might exploit that.
Cloudflare dropped the Daily Stormer. The ship of pretense of no judgement has sailed.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They host everyone equally. Everyone except those that are too right wing.
Are you referring to the one incident where they stopped hosting a racist hate site and then vowed to never take sides again?
Well, that one incident shows that they don’t host everyone equally. A very simple and obvious conclusion.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#227Google search has progressively deteriorated in quality over the last 10 years, to the point where I see it becoming useless in the relatively near future. And it's mainly not even their fault. I've been using Google search for all kinds of research for 15 years. There used to be a time when you could find the answer to pretty much anything. I could find leaked source codes on public FTP servers, links to pirated sof…
> Google search has progressively deteriorated in quality
49 out of 50 review sites are now just affiliate links to Amazon. “Check the price on Amazon” buttons is the main content there
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#228I have some experience on this field. Around two years ago i was a DevOp for the company running Dagbladet, Norways #2 newspaper. One of the things I did was keep an eye on mysterious traffic. I managed to find a huge spam network that set up a proxy service that delivered normal content, but injected "you can win an iPhone!" spam to all users visiting them. Since I was in the position of being able to monitor their…
Can I just clarify?
There is / are organisations that a) scrape legitimate sites for content, b) host that content on their own 100K domains, c) sit behind cloudflare, d) do some seo??? e) when someone finds their site they then inject an ad or similar rubbish f) do this enough that they make money off the ad / competition / porn ?
That seems like a problem that the ”original-source” metatag was supposed to stop?
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you referring to the one incident where they stopped hosting a racist hate site and then vowed to never take sides again?
Well, that one incident shows that they don’t host everyone equally. A very simple and obvious conclusion.
One data point is not a pattern.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They host everyone equally. Everyone except those that are too right wing.
Are you referring to the one incident where they stopped hosting a racist hate site and then vowed to never take sides again?
Yes. Also to the incident where they stopped hosting 8chan after they vowed to never take sides again.
You can agree with Cloudlare not providing services to those sites as much as you want, but you cannot pretend that Cloudflare hosts everyone equally. They cannot use that as an excuse to not deal with spammers.