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> It seems to me that google should not allow a site to serve different content to their bot than they serve to their users. That would be the fair thing to do
by rurp 2y ago
> It seems to me that google should not allow a site to serve different content to their bot than they serve to their users.
That would be the fair thing to do and was Google's policy for many years, and still is for all I know. But modern Google stopped caring about fairness and similar concerns many years ago.
- sltkr 2y agoThe policy was that if a user lands on the page from the Google search results page, then they should be shown the full content, same as Googlebot (“First Click Free”). But that policy was abandoned in 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/02/google-to-ditch-controversial-first-click-free-policy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/02/google-to...