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>The image is often still hosted, but has been removed from the page content. The same applies to web searches, >So the next step for Google is to actually ma
by akerro 9y ago
>The image is often still hosted, but has been removed from the page content.
The same applies to web searches,
>So the next step for Google is to actually make sure the site still has the image before including it in the search results.
And they should do the same for videos and DDoS the whole Internet just for 0.004% of chances making minor manual action a bit inconvenient.
- z3t4 9y agoYou are arguing to save a minor amount of bandwidth VS saving thousands of man-hours.
- akerro 9y ago>save a minor amount of bandwidth I dont think that's minor: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-goes-down-for-5-minutes-internet-traffic-drops-40/ https://www.cnet.com/news/google-goes-down-for-5-minutes-int... now imagine google has to check if every link it will show still exists. That's like billions of trillions of request per hour world-wide. And another thing is a privacy issue, I know, google doesnt give a shit about it, but some people do. Think that you search for 'smelly poo' and 10 different servers get HEAD request to articles that are top ranked in this keyword, potentially 9 of the servers won't get a human-made visit, 9 sysadmins or developers will find a way to abuse that metadata in the future.
- z3t4 9y agoI doubt Google account for 40% of Internet traffic. How would you even measure that !? What most likely happened was they saw a 40% drop in traffic on their servers while Google was down.