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>Add to that the automatic CAPTCHA-hellban you get if you use "site:" in anything more than a tiny amount Is it more expensive, or do they just wish to prevent
by dontupvoteme 3y ago
>Add to that the automatic CAPTCHA-hellban you get if you use "site:" in anything more than a tiny amount
Is it more expensive, or do they just wish to prevent people from being able to cache their own results locally?
- bombcar 3y agoI suspect it bypasses some advertising metric and they don't like it.
- Gasp0de 3y agoI assume it is so that websites don't abuse it to build search boxes for their own sites without showing ads? E.g. I can build a searchbox on mywebsite.com, and if you type "hamster" I'll just query google for "site:mywebsite.com hamster" and return the results to you. That way, my site can be static but still have a search box, and google has all the work but gets no money.
- gniv 3y agoIt should actually be cheaper to run. Much cheaper, since the site operator acts as a restrict on URLs.
- privacyking 3y agoStartpage does the same thing when I use sitebut with no captcha to bypass the hellban. Sometimes it just shows no results intentionally. Refreshing the page fixes that one