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reminder that google is removing sites older than 10 years from their search engine, because they care less about good and accurate results and more about pushing you into places which will make them more money
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@lizardsquid !!! Thank you for passing this on, I had no idea.
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@lizardsquid I knew they were prioritising recent results, but it makes using their search for anything vaguely historical useless.
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@lizardsquid i can't find it either, but i know it was definitely a thing
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@lizardsquid the closest thing I know of that Google announced is a ranking penalty for anything that doesn’t use HTTPS, in an effort to make browser connections more secure on average by poking web site operators into getting a certificate and turning on encryption even if they don’t handle credit cards.
Source: I work for Google as a software engineer on Chrome, which is also part of the HTTPS-everywhere push by labeling all unencrypted websites insecure
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@Kistaro I think that's almost worse, tbh, but I don't want to start an argument
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I'm trying to find the source for this, but I can't - if anyone can help me find it, that would be good.
If I can't source this by this time tomorrow, I'll delete the toot to prevent spread of misinformation