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Why is “r/the_donald” removed from Google search results?

4 points by buboard 7y ago

LinuxBender 7y ago
They were discussing this on the radio yesterday. Celebrities and public figures are no longer excluded from flagging as adult material. Now people that follow will get a notification saying the message may contain adult material (or something along that line) and they must click a button to see the message.
- buboard 7y ago
  But this is about google's search results, not the subreddit. It has disappeared from search results. Is this an attempt from google to avoid the streisand effect from people reading about it in the news and searching for the subreddit? It's still there on bing https://www.bing.com/search?q=r/the_donald https://www.bing.com/search?q=r/the_donald Weird. I'm sure it's just some technical problem with google's algorithm.
  - LinuxBender 7y ago
    Good point. There was recently a podcast with Abby Martin on Joe Rogan and they talked about googles algorithm.
  - krapp 7y ago
    >Is this an attempt from google to avoid the streisand effect from people reading about it in the news and searching for the subreddit? Is this an attempt at damage control, deflecting conversation away from from the violent content which got The_Donald quarantined and towards a false-flag conspiracy theory about Google?
MrRadar 7y ago
r/the_donald was "quarantined" by reddit after violence was explicitly threatened against police officers (and many, many other people and groups, but the threats against police seem to have been the final straw). As part of being "quarantined" pages in the subreddit now require the user to be logged into a verified account to be viewed and also have a noindex meta tag applied[1]. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/c5t0tv/reddit_quarantines_protrump_forum_over_antipolice/es3zaw7/ https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/c5t0tv/reddit_quarant...
- buboard 7y ago
  there is no noindex or nofollow meta tag in the subreddit though
  - MrRadar 7y ago
    Even if there wasn't you still need to be logged in to view it. Googlebot probably doesn't have a reddit account.
    - buboard 7y ago
      Ah ok i checked there is a nofollow if you re not logged in. I was just curious if this was a deliberate action on the part of google

4 points by buboard 7y ago

They were discussing this on the radio yesterday. Celebrities and public figures are no longer excluded from flagging as adult material. Now people that follow will get a notification saying the message may contain adult material (or something along that line) and they must click a button to see the message.

buboard 7y ago
But this is about google's search results, not the subreddit. It has disappeared from search results. Is this an attempt from google to avoid the streisand effect from people reading about it in the news and searching for the subreddit? It's still there on bing https://www.bing.com/search?q=r/the_donald https://www.bing.com/search?q=r/the_donald Weird. I'm sure it's just some technical problem with google's algorithm.
- LinuxBender 7y ago
  Good point. There was recently a podcast with Abby Martin on Joe Rogan and they talked about googles algorithm.
- krapp 7y ago
  >Is this an attempt from google to avoid the streisand effect from people reading about it in the news and searching for the subreddit? Is this an attempt at damage control, deflecting conversation away from from the violent content which got The_Donald quarantined and towards a false-flag conspiracy theory about Google?

MrRadar 7y ago

r/the_donald was "quarantined" by reddit after violence was explicitly threatened against police officers (and many, many other people and groups, but the threats against police seem to have been the final straw). As part of being "quarantined" pages in the subreddit now require the user to be logged into a verified account to be viewed and also have a noindex meta tag applied[1]. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/c5t0tv/reddit_quarantines_protrump_forum_over_antipolice/es3zaw7/ https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/c5t0tv/reddit_quarant...

buboard 7y ago
there is no noindex or nofollow meta tag in the subreddit though
- MrRadar 7y ago
  Even if there wasn't you still need to be logged in to view it. Googlebot probably doesn't have a reddit account.
  - buboard 7y ago
    Ah ok i checked there is a nofollow if you re not logged in. I was just curious if this was a deliberate action on the part of google