DOOM: Twitter's panic-driven rate-limiting gets them dropped out of Google Search | Boing Boing
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Fisticuffs enthusiast and noted “Pedo Guy,” Elon Musk announced drastic rate-limiting policies on Twitter last week. Purportedly rate-limiting is evidence of Tekonoking battling with &#…
  • marswarrior@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • grahamsz@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Rhaedas@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Bushwhack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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….

  • polizeros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

    That’s exactly what is happening now.

    • Cordoro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Do you mean to tell me that a website called “boing boing” isn’t only written by the utmost professional of journalists?

      • Axellon@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Boingboing has been around since the earliest days of the web, and used to be one of the biggest sites and well respected. Scrolling through it now is pretty sad.

    • nobodyspecial@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Odds are it was written by ChatGPT or similar A.I. Been seeing a LOT of articles with odd mistakes or written in “A.I. voice” lately.

  • voodooattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.