is this real?
The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
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Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Said it before and I’ll say it again, when Reddit finally becomes inaccesible via searches we will have lost a huge and very useful database of succinct information.
You haven't noticed that reddit has become substantially search inaccessible a number of months back? Every reddit page while not logged in is full of hidden content from other unrelated pages. When you search, you'll get hits in these unrelated pages-- but when you follow the link it's not there (because it's on the unrelated pages). Worse, the pages with the correct content aren't necessarily in the results at all…
> I'd say about 80% of my own comments are now difficult-to-impossible to find via search when they were easy previously.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#83> The simple solution would be to test sites regularly with an unknown IP and common user agent to check that a site isn’t just showing content to Google and gives real users something completely different. That would stop this. Surely Google does this, right? Given that - in theory - showing different content to Google versus non-Google should result in a penalty, anyway ...
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Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find that using another search engine in that kind of situation is extremely useful! If I'm searching for more mainstream stuff google usually is great but when I'm going for more specialized topics duck duck go will usually bring up some different links!
Pretty much the only alternative to Google Search is Bing. That's even what DuckDuckGo uses behind the scenes.
Yeah thats why I said to use it!
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find that using another search engine in that kind of situation is extremely useful! If I'm searching for more mainstream stuff google usually is great but when I'm going for more specialized topics duck duck go will usually bring up some different links!
Pretty much the only alternative to Google Search is Bing. That's even what DuckDuckGo uses behind the scenes.
I’ve been using Yandex more and more. Better search results, less censorship. Thanks, Rooskies!
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#86Somewhat related: has anyone else noticed a massive change in breadth of results? I was searching for reviews for diving equipment and some less niche items and I feel like I'm being spoonfed results from the same comparison engines. Since when did algo content become king?
Simply, Google have lost the battle against SEO long ago, and, being in a trap of own cash flow, can't do anything radical to change that.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#87Interesting, the image seems to contain characters from a Russian childrens' cartoon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikoriki )
They are using different images. A month or so ago it was some guy tied up on a chair with some russian text on top of the image.
There are a lot of these domains (ptsdforum.dk, verdes.dk, momentsbykruuse.dk from the top of my mind). Always Danish domains and always registered by the same person in Riga.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Atleast you get the results you are looking for... I search for three keywords, and it chooses to ignore the two specific one, and show only the one general one (while puting a line under the search result, that the result does not contain some keywords). Basically, like searching diving suit thickness, and google ignoring "suit" and "thickness" (until i specifically put those two words in quotemarks), and only showi…
I play a game with google search: I take something very mainstream like a movie title, let's say 'Reservoir Dogs' And change something in it, to say 'Reservoir Cats' for example. Google search 'reservoir cats' and it will completely ignore what you actually search for in favor of the mainstream result. The effect is basically that you can't sesrch for 'reservoir cats'! Even putting something opposite or unrelated to…
Although I'm familiar with your point, I literally just searched for the term you mentioned, navigated all the way to page 6 and every single result was specifically for Reservoir Cats proper, none of them even mentioned Reservoir Dogs in the title, only in the description for some of them.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#89Somewhat related: has anyone else noticed a massive change in breadth of results? I was searching for reviews for diving equipment and some less niche items and I feel like I'm being spoonfed results from the same comparison engines. Since when did algo content become king?
Atleast you get the results you are looking for... I search for three keywords, and it chooses to ignore the two specific one, and show only the one general one (while puting a line under the search result, that the result does not contain some keywords). Basically, like searching diving suit thickness, and google ignoring "suit" and "thickness" (until i specifically put those two words in quotemarks), and only showi…
Odd. When I try that search[1] I'm seeing good results. There's a onebox telling me how thick a suit I need for different temperatures, followed by a bunch of articles on the topic.
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=diving+suit+thickness&rlz=1C...
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#90I live in Norway and don’t have this problem now. I had a similar problem about a year ago on my MacBook Air because of some software that altered my Google results in all of my browsers. Don’t remember the name of it, but something smelled fishy when the results was different from the ones on my phone.