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Re: Google search drops cache link from search results

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Post by sph »

whamlastxmas wrote: post #68
archerx wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t even know what the point of using google search anymore is...

Appending site:Reddit.com to everything bc Reddit search sucks

Yeah but they enshittified Reddit too, so many links are to "unreviewed" subreddits that force you to login.

If it was not for Kagi putting some sanity back into search, Google and Reddit going to shit would have had me seriously reconsider this career and spending so much time online.

I think it is abhorrent borderline criminal to place yourself at the centre of the Internet experience, and one day decide to make it shittier for everybody because of short sighted lust for money and inept PMs.

Re: Google search drops cache link from search results

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Post by A_D_E_P_T »

Y_Y wrote: post #79
whamlastxmas wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Appending site:Reddit.com to everything bc Reddit search sucks

Reddit search sucking is a feature - it's trying to protect you from the Reddit content, that's what really sucks. There was a brief moment it had some good advice on products and services, until SEO jerks got wind of it and astroturfed over the whole thing.

Yeah, Reddit is the most astroturfed place on the internet. There's a thriving market in "high karma" accounts that are bought and sold by PR firms, SEO companies, and guerilla marketers -- and a huge fraction, if not an outright majority, of product-related posts are engineered from such sources with undisclosed interests. These days, it's one of the cheapest, and one of the "best," ways to advertise.

I don't think that Reddit was ever good. (The upvote/downvote system stifles real discussion, and even normal people treat it like a game -- exaggerating and making up stories for upvotes.) But today it's unambiguously terrible.

Re: Google search drops cache link from search results

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Post by N-Krause »

nomilk wrote: post #42
elashri wrote: post #28

Well Google is making more me convinced each day with my investment in kagi $10 subscription. Kagi native support for archive wayback is one of the most useful features for me.

Can you explain the UX. Is it just one click to go to the latest wayback machine version of the site or something like that? (it was on my 'to do' list to either find or make an extension that does this, so kagi could be quite useful to me also)

There are three dots right next to the result, from that menu you can open the result on archive.org in another tab. [1]

But you probably can somehow move the link to a more prominent position as Kagi does support custom css that is served with your search results. [2]

1 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...

2 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html#customiz...

Re: Google search drops cache link from search results

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Post by JoshTriplett »

dredmorbius wrote: post #71
JoshTriplett wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any archival purposes should use the Internet Archive; Google's cache couldn't be counted on to remain present and unchanged, even before this. (The Internet Archive can't be counted on to remain unchanged either, but at least the Internet Archive will either remain unchanged or disappear, never change. I wish archive.org didn't auto-nuke entire sites based on robots.txt, because when domains disappear the domain squ…

IA have increasingly ignored robots.txt since the mid-2010s, going on at least eight years now: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea... > https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/17/robots-txt-gov-mil-websi... >

That's excellent news, thank you!

Re: Google search drops cache link from search results

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Post by corgihamlet »

roshin wrote: post #57

I used to use it on some sites that would show different results to Google vs people. LinkedIn cache was disabled years ago, I guess it was just time until the rest would be. on a similar topic, does anyone know how to view LinkedIn without an account?

You could always make a fake account for LinkedIn.

Re: Google search drops cache link from search results

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Post by nomilk »

N-Krause wrote: post #85
nomilk wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain the UX. Is it just one click to go to the latest wayback machine version of the site or something like that? (it was on my 'to do' list to either find or make an extension that does this, so kagi could be quite useful to me also)

There are three dots right next to the result, from that menu you can open the result on archive.org in another tab. [1] But you probably can somehow move the link to a more prominent position as Kagi does support custom css that is served with your search results. [2] 1 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize... 2 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html#customiz...

Sounds a straight-forward as hoped. Ty!

Re: Google search drops cache link from search results

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Post by dns_snek »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #84
Y_Y wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit search sucking is a feature - it's trying to protect you from the Reddit content, that's what really sucks. There was a brief moment it had some good advice on products and services, until SEO jerks got wind of it and astroturfed over the whole thing.

Yeah, Reddit is the most astroturfed place on the internet. There's a thriving market in "high karma" accounts that are bought and sold by PR firms, SEO companies, and guerilla marketers -- and a huge fraction, if not an outright majority, of product-related posts are engineered from such sources with undisclosed interests. These days, it's one of the cheapest, and one of the "best," ways to advertise. I don't think…

Finding genuine product reviews is borderline impossible these days. Search results are usually just worthless affiliate link spam, even from supposed "reputable" outlets. Are there any other places on the internet that try to solve this problem in a way that can't be easily gamed by marketers?
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