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> The Man Who Killed Google Search
Christian J
post Apr 29 2024, 06:48 AM
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Interesting read on Google Search's decline since 2019 (though I believe it started many years before that).

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
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post Apr 29 2024, 03:56 PM
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Could you summarize? tongue.gif
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post Apr 29 2024, 04:03 PM
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Nah, but reading is optional. tongue.gif

The most interesting part was that the one being blamed is the same person that allegedly ruined Yahoo Search before that. rolleyes.gif
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post Oct 24 2024, 07:21 PM
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A thing that has irritiaed me lately... Sometimes when I search using Swedish terms I get pages in poor Swedish. First thought, it's on of those spam pages that's churned out by the minute. But no, it's a google translation of a legit page in English. I haven't figured out if Google does this striving to be "helpful" as usual, or if it's the site owner that has activated some automatic google translation and Google then find those pages. I confess I haven't even looked closely at the URLs.
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post Oct 29 2024, 11:13 AM
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QUOTE(pandy @ Oct 25 2024, 02:21 AM) *

I haven't figured out if Google does this striving to be "helpful" as usual,

I could imagine Google translating search queries to English before checking against its database.

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or if it's the site owner that has activated some automatic google translation and Google then find those pages.

Lately I've seen a couple of siteswith a Google Translate toolbar at the top (looked like something generated by a javascript library). The pages were not translated by default though, maybe because of my browser preferences. Or would Googlebot index every translation of the same page? unsure.gif
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