Leaked Documents Reveal How Google Search Gatekeeps the Internet
Leaked Documents Reveal How Google Search Gatekeeps the Internet
SEO experts say a massive leak of 14,000 ranking features exposes the blueprint for how Google secretly curates the Internet.
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Annoying stuff, but I've suspected for awhile.
My personal blog is life changing, but y'all will never find it, at this rate. /Sarcasm
More seriously, a decade ago my personal blog was the number one article on the Internet for like 3 deeply esoteric technical topics. Neat.
At some point, that stopped happening. I didn't give it serious thought, because those articles were never meant for anything but my personal reference, anyway.
But it made me wonder what was going on with the algorithms.
On one hand, I figure people can just go to stack overflow. Except, I don't participate in SO, because they're a bunch of tossers. But then, I figure someone else can just copy my write-up into Stack Overflow. Except, no one does, anymore, probably because they can't find my blog either.
Again, my blog is mostly useless shit. So maybe the algorithm was just doing it's job. But I've wondered for awhile if the Internet wasn't just plain better a decade ago when search actually worked.
Whose blogs was I missing out on? Now I find stuff like that through Mastodon, but it still isn't targeted topical search, yet.
I need to get in on that web ring action going on.
wondering if your blog comes up in https://search.marginalia.nu/?
None of the most obvious searches I tried came up with my blog, but I did find some better resources (to me, than my blog, which admittedly I don't care to find since there's nothing new there for me...) on blogs that it did find. It looks like it's doing the kind of search I used to rely on. Pretty cool!
Yeah, honestly it would be fascinating if you wanted to go search for the specific terms that you think should bring that up, and then compare how deep your blog is in the results on a bunch of different web search pages.
Was your blog mobile friendly?
I like to think I kept on top of that, yeah.
That's good. I asked because Google wiped out all non-mobile search results for mobile devices. This happened in 2015 so I was thinking the timeline kinda matches.
When I look up the name of my blog, it shows up. Unlikely for it to come up if people look up just the title I think. Maybe I'll give it a try