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Yes, the results are inaccessible during the blackout.

by marcellus23 3y ago

KptMarchewa 3y ago
Not really, Google cache works.
- DANmode 3y ago
  Don't tell the PE guys about archive.org and .is, either.
  - optionalsquid 3y ago
    Neither Google cache nor archive.org/etc. covers all pages. I've been running into that problem a fair few times
    - nashashmi 3y ago
      How do you get the cache?
      - tafath 3y ago
        this extension [1] can retrieve cache from various sources, including google. 1 https://github.com/dessant/web-archives https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
      - grumbel 3y ago
        Three dots next to the search result in Google, than in the "About this result" window there is a little "Cached" link right at the bottom. That "Cached" link is however missing for a lot of results.
        nashashmi 3y ago
        That’s what I thought. It’s usually missing. Google 12 years ago used to be awesome. I have records of doing 30-40 searches a day. Now I do barely 12.
anenefan 3y ago
Ouch a couple of people didn't like my straightforward observation. The thing is google is still working just as it was ... the fact the results are dead atm is beside the point. A person visiting old bookmarks to reddits that are unavailable at the moment could say the same, their bookmarks aren't working. I wouldn't author an article about bookmarks not working as such ...
- 16bitvoid 3y ago
  The point of the article is that many people rely on Reddit being a major source in Google results (i.e., appending "reddit" to a search) because of how terrible Google's "organic" results have become with ad and SEO spam. Yes, Google is working as normal, but "normal" is terrible and posts on Reddit made Google results less terrible. If Google's results are so bad that I feel the need to limit the results to Reddit, then it's probably a problem with Google and the type of sites that it has incentivized over the years (i.e., spam).
  - anenefan 3y ago
    It misses the point that many people don't use google, those search results from different search engines would similarly be impacted. You should see the basic search page google hands me to use and has been that way the last 7 or so years. Then again, I used to be a very heavy user of google, multiple switches or operators for each advanced search, a habit from the times when that's all I did all day long. Before they made it hard for me, I bypassed their BS limit of f'all they eased in instead of the 100 results a page if one wanted and I crawled though multiple search pages and a few dozen results to land credible information to exclude echoes. I know google results have dropped off the deep end, but framing reddit going dark as being of significant impact to search results is not honest. Yes, the result these people want is now inaccessible - it's not a new thing, results that are inaccessible are not unexpected. It's no different to the many deep searches I've done in the past and found what might have been useful results, were actually private unless one agrees to sell up their tracking data or the site was behind a pay wall. I'd agree, Google and the like incentivised spam by shrugging for a start and then realising clutter gets more clicks and ads served. I understand a lot of people are annoyed that many useful reddits are dark at the moment, a honest conversation would acknowledge that, rather than handing out prizes to those who the most upset about the protest.

Yes, the results are inaccessible during the blackout.

KptMarchewa 3y ago

Not really, Google cache works.

DANmode 3y ago
Don't tell the PE guys about archive.org and .is, either.
- optionalsquid 3y ago
  Neither Google cache nor archive.org/etc. covers all pages. I've been running into that problem a fair few times
  - nashashmi 3y ago
    How do you get the cache?
    - tafath 3y ago
      this extension [1] can retrieve cache from various sources, including google. 1 https://github.com/dessant/web-archives https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
    - grumbel 3y ago
      Three dots next to the search result in Google, than in the "About this result" window there is a little "Cached" link right at the bottom. That "Cached" link is however missing for a lot of results.
      - nashashmi 3y ago
        That’s what I thought. It’s usually missing. Google 12 years ago used to be awesome. I have records of doing 30-40 searches a day. Now I do barely 12.

anenefan 3y ago

Ouch a couple of people didn't like my straightforward observation. The thing is google is still working just as it was ... the fact the results are dead atm is beside the point. A person visiting old bookmarks to reddits that are unavailable at the moment could say the same, their bookmarks aren't working. I wouldn't author an article about bookmarks not working as such ...

16bitvoid 3y ago
The point of the article is that many people rely on Reddit being a major source in Google results (i.e., appending "reddit" to a search) because of how terrible Google's "organic" results have become with ad and SEO spam. Yes, Google is working as normal, but "normal" is terrible and posts on Reddit made Google results less terrible. If Google's results are so bad that I feel the need to limit the results to Reddit, then it's probably a problem with Google and the type of sites that it has incentivized over the years (i.e., spam).
- anenefan 3y ago
  It misses the point that many people don't use google, those search results from different search engines would similarly be impacted. You should see the basic search page google hands me to use and has been that way the last 7 or so years. Then again, I used to be a very heavy user of google, multiple switches or operators for each advanced search, a habit from the times when that's all I did all day long. Before they made it hard for me, I bypassed their BS limit of f'all they eased in instead of the 100 results a page if one wanted and I crawled though multiple search pages and a few dozen results to land credible information to exclude echoes. I know google results have dropped off the deep end, but framing reddit going dark as being of significant impact to search results is not honest. Yes, the result these people want is now inaccessible - it's not a new thing, results that are inaccessible are not unexpected. It's no different to the many deep searches I've done in the past and found what might have been useful results, were actually private unless one agrees to sell up their tracking data or the site was behind a pay wall. I'd agree, Google and the like incentivised spam by shrugging for a start and then realising clutter gets more clicks and ads served. I understand a lot of people are annoyed that many useful reddits are dark at the moment, a honest conversation would acknowledge that, rather than handing out prizes to those who the most upset about the protest.