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I wonder how long until Google delists them in search results.
by candiddevmike 3y ago
I wonder how long until Google delists them in search results.
- fallat 3y agoWhy would they?
- candiddevmike 3y agoA lot of the Google search results for reddit lead to a error page or subreddit is now private, not the content Google originally indexed.
- emikulic 3y agoWow, Reddit is going to lose a lot of pagerank.
- teruakohatu 3y agoBecause when you visit a search result you get a page saying the page is private instead of content.
- djbusby 3y agoBut are they serving a 410 (or other eeror code?) ? Looks like no to me. The algo may not respond as fast
- gizmo686 3y agoGoogle knows if you follow a search result, then quickly go back to the search page.
- technion 3y agoWhich has always been the case for anything tagged NSFW, or anything at all in a mobile browser. Every piece of SEO advice says this will get downranked from Google, but Reddit demonstrates this isn't true.
- justinclift 3y agoAs a tip, if you just need to read the content from the search result then they seem to be commonly available in the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org https://web.archive.org It does mean you need to cut-n-paste the Reddit url there, but it's been working for the content I needed to look into yesterday.
- cooljacob204 3y agoAn absolute ton of search results can't be viewed right now because subreddits are locked down.
- eclipticplane 3y agoThat might be better for Google. Now, when I google for reviews or brand recommendations, I won't get reddit anymore. Could reddit be biased? Absolutely. Is the entire first page of google full of bias, ads, and outright lies? Absolutely. But those ads pay Google; Reddit doesn't.
- dotnet00 3y agoTo add it to killedbygoogle.com
- graeme 3y agoGoogle should buy Reddit instead. Not that different from owning Youtube. And they'd ensure their search results remain full of good, text based content. Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. If Reddit management kills the communities which produce the text posts it could have a real negative impact on Google. Meanwhile Google's text and video ad network could probably monetize Reddit way better than Reddit can.
- rossdavidh 3y agoAll true, but I find it unlikely that they would be allowed to buy it. Even if the US approved (by no means certain), the EU probably would not.
- CSMastermind 3y agoThis is an extraordinarily good idea and I'm surprised I haven't heard it discussed before.
- fabrice_d 3y agoHaving more concentration of internet services under Google doesn't sound like a good idea at all. Or maybe rename it GAOLgle?
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- whatsuphotdog 3y agoGoogle destroyed its own search engine, it would do the same to Reddit. The fundamental problem is that reddit's primary strength, it's biggest point of value, is antithetical to the type of monetization that Google would implement.
- entropie 3y ago> Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. If Reddit management kills the communities which produce the text posts it could have a real negative impact on Google. That is actually really true. Also reddit is a great (if not the actual best existing right now?) source for training AI models.
- RomanAlexander 3y agoI wonder how long until reddit allows search engine origin to bypass the community locked. my guess is very soon
- whyenot 3y agoReddit would finally have search that works!