Medium articles have a very high priority on Google search results. But almost all articles from medium.com are showing an "upgrade" button and if you do not buy their membership you can not continue reading.
Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
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Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#2Must be what you are searching and reading about as I have not seen an upgrade button for a while.
Maybe you have something(like malware) in your browser causing this.
Anyways this is off topic but there are work arounds for the site you mentioned and I believe you can even google how to do it ;)
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#3Must be what you are searching and reading about as I have not seen an upgrade button for a while. Maybe you have something(like malware) in your browser causing this. Anyways this is off topic but there are work arounds for the site you mentioned and I believe you can even google how to do it ;)
Medium only hide content after you have read several(I don't know the number) of their articles, that's why you didn't see the "upgrade" button.
I know how to work around, but that's not the topic I'm asking.
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#4They should remove Pinterest results first.
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#5Disable javascript or open it in private tab.
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#6Personally I loathe seeing Pinterest come up in my Google searches. So I use a "custom" search in chrome that just sticks "-inurl:pinterest" after all my searches. Perhaps that may be an option for you.
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#7No.
What good is a search engine if it doesn't try to point you in a direction where there's a result (even if that direction has a wall (door) that requires payment.
Well, in the ideal world they would show any matching results their crawler saw, but Google already censors a lot of legitimate results, because of local laws.
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#8Must be what you are searching and reading about as I have not seen an upgrade button for a while. Maybe you have something(like malware) in your browser causing this. Anyways this is off topic but there are work arounds for the site you mentioned and I believe you can even google how to do it ;)
Medium only hide content after you have read several(I don't know the number) of their articles, that's why you didn't see the "upgrade" button. I know how to work around, but that's not the topic I'm asking.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.htm
As for the topic your asking about. I say Google should not remove results, especially if your only issue is a paywall.
Here is some info regarding paywalls and Google.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/paywall...
And just for you I will give you a nice Google Operand Tip
Try this in your search:
"What you're searching for -site:medium.com"
Hope you find that answer more satisfying.
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#9No. What good is a search engine if it doesn't try to point you in a direction where there's a result (even if that direction has a wall (door) that requires payment. Well, in the ideal world they would show any matching results their crawler saw, but Google already censors a lot of legitimate results, because of local laws.
Maybe it should be something like search results are presented under two tabs, walled and free, and free is the default selected tab. And the tabs are at the bottom of the page, so you have to scroll all the way down.
Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
#10 Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
My question is: if we designed the internet and web from scratch, how would we deal with paywalled pages?
It might be valuable, for example, to create a separate protocol for paywalled content (eg: ""cc:"" instead of "http://") and add road-blocks to discourage paywalled sites from using the wrong protocol. That would allow search-engines to filter search results according to the user's preference.