{"id":179514,"date":"2018-01-17T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/17\/the-crapification-of-google-search\/"},"modified":"2018-01-17T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:25:00","slug":"the-crapification-of-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/17\/the-crapification-of-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crapification of Google Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google appears to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2018\/01\/15\/Google-is-losing-its-memory\">dropping older web pages from its searches<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I think Google has stopped in\u00addex\u00ading the old\u00ader parts of the We\u00adb. I think I can prove it. Google\u2019s com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion is do\u00ading bet\u00adter.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Ev\u00adi\u00addence \u00b7 This isn\u2019t just a proof, it\u2019s a rock-n-roll proof. Back in 2006, I pub\u00adlished a re\u00adview of Lou Reed\u2019s Rock n Roll An\u00adi\u00admal al\u00adbum. Back in 2008, Brent Sim\u00admons pub\u00adlished That New Sound, about The Clash\u2019s Lon\u00addon Calling. Here\u2019s a chal\u00adlenge: Can you find ei\u00adther of these with Google? Even if you read them first and can care\u00adful\u00adly con\u00adjure up exact-match strings, and then use the \u201csite:\u201d pre\u00adfix? I can\u2019t.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">[<i>Up\u00addate: Now you can, be\u00adcause this piece went a lit\u00adtle vi\u00adral. But you sure couldn\u2019t ear\u00adli\u00ader in the day.<\/i>]<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><b>Com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion \u00b7 <\/b><\/span>Bing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=tim+bray+rock+n+roll+animal&amp;qs=n&amp;form=QBLH&amp;sp=-1&amp;pq=tim+bray+rock+n+roll+animal&amp;sc=1-11&amp;sk=&amp;cvid=503B1ECB9D0F4435B04866A1E59BE757\">can find it<\/a>!  Duck\u00adDuck\u00adGo <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=tim+bray+rock+n+roll+animal&amp;t=hf&amp;ia=web\">can too<\/a>!  Both of them can find Brent\u2019s <cite>Lon\u00addon Calling<\/cite> piece, too <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>They buried the date range search in 2014, and their dominance in advertising has meant that they really don&#8217;t have to compete on search around the edges.<\/p>\n<p>They know that there is no meaningful alternative for getting eyeballs and ad revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google appears to dropping older web pages from its searches: I think Google has stopped in\u00addex\u00ading the old\u00ader parts of the We\u00adb. I think I can prove it. Google\u2019s com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion is do\u00ading bet\u00adter. Ev\u00adi\u00addence \u00b7 This isn\u2019t just a proof, it\u2019s a rock-n-roll proof. Back in 2006, I pub\u00adlished a re\u00adview of Lou Reed\u2019s Rock &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,588,367],"class_list":["post-179514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-fail","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}