I might be enjoying all of this a little too much.
I don’t think google is doing that on purpose. Search engines are supposed to remove dead links once in a while. And twitter redirecting all links to the login page, so it’s effectively making duplicate results on google, which are removed. I think that’s why google doesn’t have too many Linkedin results.
I remember the fear as a web developer in making sure changes were good before going live for this very reason. “Please don’t screw up the Google bot crawler and drop the search placement.” I’d love to know if Google searches hitting private Reddit pages did a similar thing.
No. Private subs still showed the topic part of the body and like 4 words of the first comment I think before clicking to see you couldn’t read more. I think r/Homekit is an example of this at one point….
That’s what I figured. However perhaps Google is still looking at how long one stays at a link, and a click right back is still negative.
Well yeah, it wouldn’t be 52% if they were doing it on purpose.
How did the twits possibly not foresee this happening? Surely they have someone with some SEO experience left, anyone.
It’ll take a while to recover from this - google aren’t going to add half a billion pages back in nearly as quickly as they take them out.
It really doesn’t matter if they have anyone left that knows anything about anything. All reports thus far is that anyone not giving the ol’ “aye captain” any time Elon says anything gets shitcanned. I’m sure there is someone there that probably went “but, sir…” before immediately getting shut down.
I wish they would drop dead links faster, I feel like 20% of the results I click on get 404 or the server is straight up down.
True, maybe just a report dead link button on the results page would be the way to go.
Elon speed running the fediverse migration
Love to see this but the article is written by a kid
Do you mean to tell me that a website called “boing boing” isn’t only written by the utmost professional of journalists?
Why does that page read like a personal attack? Don’t get me wrong, with his latest blunders, I don’t like Elon either; but this “article” seems too unprofessional to cite here to me.
Are you really questioning the journalistic integrity of boingboing. net?
What is this world coming to…
It’s just an editorialization of https://www.rawstory.com/google-twitter/
