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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 LifeLiverTransp »

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…

Its some way to google-bomb a site, because the algo determinating importance by phone-numbers linking is still subvertable as it was 1999?

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

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Post by fjsolwmv »

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…

When there are 0 good results for a query, Google and most users don't care which bad results are served

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

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Post by GarrisonPrime »

3xblah wrote: post #57
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…

What makes no sense to me about this blocking scenario is that the pages being searched for are presumably non-commercial ones that no one else is searching for. In other words, they are in low demand. It follows that a monopoly search engine would have little reason to block "robots" from copying these pages, maybe to appear on some mythical competing search engine; almost no one is searching for them. The results p…

In other words, true democracy kills any chance for individuality.

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

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Post by zamadatix »

JetSpiegel wrote: post #69
YawningAngel wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure that's true. How can one automatically determine whether a page is unique or static? As a trivial example, a URL path that accepts arbitrary strings and hashes them generates unique, immutable pages, but obviously cannot be crawled in its totality.

> How can one automatically determine whether a page is unique or static? They crawled it for years and it never changed? It is a blog post.

The person you are replying to said "unique immutable pages", by definition you would be able to crawl these for years and they would never change. [1] is a site that contains all possible 3200 page books with the ability to consistently index content as an example.

[1] http://libraryofbabel.info/About.html

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

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Post by astura »

tholman wrote: post #23

Google will also happily surface a stackoverflow article from 2010 about how to solve a js problem... frustrating the top 3 answers will be with jquery, when its not the approach someone would take in the last 5 years. Definitely frustrating, but also showing some need to retire specific pieces of the past away from the top recommendations.

What's wrong with using jQuery in 2019?

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

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Post by pixl97 »

SquareWheel wrote: post #3
saagarjha wrote: post #2

> Other things were weirder, like this old post being soft recognized as a 404 Not Found response. My web server is properly configured and quite capable of sending correct HTTP response codes, so ignoring standards in that regard is just craziness on Google's part. I've noticed Google does this when you don't seem to have a lot of content on the page. I think it "guesses" that short pages are poorly-marked 404s.

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.

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

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Post by snazz »

JetSpiegel wrote: post #67
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…

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=307%2D139%2D2345 You comment now comes up first, but the rest of the results all try to contact googlesyndication.com, so ads? Google will not exclude sites that literally give them money.

It’s the only result I get for this search now. The ads are low-quality if I disable my adblocker however.

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

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Post by fogetti »

rapht wrote: post #43

With all the talk about Google results not being satisfying anymore to a growing number of users, I'm surprised we haven't seen more sites pop up that would allow users to display the results of multiple search engines of their choosing either by mixing (eg all 1st results then all 2nd, etc) or by seeing them side by side... while stripping ads and cards and the like.

While I agree that it would be great to have such service it's just technically impossible. Google is very cautious to protect their service from automated requests (on behalf of humans or in batch or in any other form), and you will need quite some resources (a.k.a $$$) to scale at Google scale if your service would ever become popular.
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