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It's so utterly broken. At the beginning I was just annoyed because you could select the blurred text and still read it, but now (for the desktop site) they ac
by binarycrusader 14y ago
It's so utterly broken. At the beginning I was just annoyed because you could select the blurred text and still read it, but now (for the desktop site) they actually substitute the text with dynamically generated images that are a blurred version.
I became so enraged over this that I decided to install the "Personal Blocklist (by Google)" Chrome plugin and then added quora.com to the blocklist just so that I wouldn't see them in results when I searched for things on Google.
Like you, they've trained me to never want to contribute to their site, and to never, ever want to consume the content they provide.
- davidandgoliath 14y agoSame. It takes a lot to get on my blocklist and the only site that now populates it is quora.
- edem 14y agoIndeed. Same stands for me too.
- thejosh 14y agoThat and mirrors of google groups such as gmame
- limmeau 14y agoGmane the mail-to-news gateway and archive? It's not like Google Groups owns all those mailing lists.
- pseut 14y agoGmane doesn't mirror google groups -- it mirrors public mailing lists and originally was made to reformat them for news readers[1]; some mailing lists use it intentionally as their public archives (emacs org-mode for one) so you might be missing out if you blacklist it. I don't have any affiliation with them, but they don't seem too bad. [1] http://gmane.org/about.php http://gmane.org/about.php
- rhizome 14y agoIf their purpose is so focused on newsreader formatting, they should tweak their robots.txt to keep from polluting SERPs.
- dsl 14y agoGoogle groups should modify its robots.txt to avoid showing up in SERPS. Gmane was around first.
- rhizome 14y agoGmane was not around first. Google Groups started almost a year before the gmane.org domain was even registered, and it was built upon the purchase of the DejaNews archives, which itself began in the mid-90s.
- pseut 14y agoDeja News was a web interface for Usenet, not a newsgroup interface for mailing lists. I don't remember when google groups switched to a web/mailing list setup, but I think it was later than 2002 (when Gmane started).