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I blocked most Gawker sites from my Google search results, because all the URLs seem to be broken and it takes me a few seconds of staring at a page unrelated t
by alex_c 16y ago
I blocked most Gawker sites from my Google search results, because all the URLs seem to be broken and it takes me a few seconds of staring at a page unrelated to my search before I remember that and hit the back button.
I simply don't understand the point of the changes they made.
Edit: from one of the comments on the article (I'm even more confused about their changes now):
"Another thing that may be contributing is that after the redesign they, Gawker, put some national redirect for Canada that actually breaks the links and just dumps you on the home page.
This has become so frustrating that I don't actually go to gawker sites anymore and used to log into lifehacker and i09 nearly daily."
- JonnieCache 16y agoI get this in the UK. I've never managed to read a gawker article.
- barrkel 16y agoThe problem is their completely moronic geo-ip auto-redirection technique of inserting a 'uk.' subdomain prefix. Deleting the prefix will usually let you view the desired article. The fact that they haven't figured this out by now tells me there's something very wrong in their software camp.
- mtr 16y agoSame thing happens to me. I have RSS feeds of their sites and after clicking on the article it would try some redirect attempt for Spain and come up short. Seems to be better now though.
- harisenbon 16y agoI get the same thing here in Japan. To get to the Gawker top page, I have to go us.lifehacker.com (for example). When I click any link from google however, I'm automatically redirected to the JP top page, so I have to take the www out of the url and replace it with us. it's such a PITA that I've pretty much stopped using Gawker sites all together.
- cubicle67 16y agosame in australia. any link redirects to .com.au home page